President Obama today gave his longest and most detailed statements about the weeklong clashes between protesters and heavily armed police in Ferguson, Missouri, saying he was open to the idea of reviewing the collection of federal programs that supply local police departments with surplus military gear. I think its probably useful for us to review how the funding has gone, how local law enforcement has used grant dollars, to make sure that what theyre purchasing is stuff they actually need, a visibly tired Obama said at a White House press conference this afternoon, after cutting his vacation short to return to Washington, DC. What’s also clear is that a small minority of individuals are not, in reference to looting of several stores in Ferguson and reports that Molotov cocktails were thrown at police.
Obama says it is ‘probably useful’ for US to review police militarization after Ferguson
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