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xocet

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4. Also, campus police departments...

Reply to Swede Atlanta (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 06:05 PM

Nov 2013

Armored military transport to join Ohio State police fleet
By Theodore Decker
The Columbus Dispatch, Monday September 30, 2013 9:22 AM

Wisecracks abounded as news of Ohio State University’s newly acquired armored military vehicle spread from blog to blog this month.

Would university police use the 38,000-pound vehicle to quash collegiate panty raids? Lay siege to the University of Michigan?

But peppered throughout the online riffing were bleak predictions about the rise of a government-sponsored police state. Some brought up the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State.

“Four dead in Ohio?” one person wrote. “That will be small fries when campus police start their show of force with this puppy.”

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/09/30/osu-police-military-vehicle-for-safe-travel.html

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Student In Coma After Being Tased [View all] damnedifIknow Nov 2013 OP

When will the school's officer get his raise and promotion? Cuz that's what happens when tasing valerief Nov 2013 #1

While all the facts of this incident are not known it seems like we have Swede Atlanta Nov 2013 #2

Great post and 100 percent agree with everything you said. damnedifIknow Nov 2013 #3

Also, campus police departments... xocet Nov 2013 #4

K&R for more visibility. nt Mnemosyne Nov 2013 #5