Sen. Markey says all police must
be disarmed of 'weapons of war'
including tear gas, rubber bullets
JustTheNews,
by
Sophie Mann
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
9/15/2020 5:05:00 AM
Sen. Ed Markey said Monday that U.S. police officers must uniformly be disarmed of "weapons of war," which according to the senator, include "tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, and bean bag rounds."
Portland Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler recently issued a ban on the troubled city's police department from using CS gas (also called tear gas) on demonstrators.
Every night for the past four months, police officers in Portland have come face-to-face with protestors and rioters demonstrating in favor of racial justice and police reform. Often the clashes have become violent and have been connected to several deaths.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
lana720 9/15/2020 5:12:33 AM (No. 541096)
Remember, Mah-kee stood beside AOC when she announced that her New Green Eel was all that and a bag of chips!
This does so much good in Britain, Ed! It’s Dog track time for you.
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Sure Markey! As soon as your security forces are disarmed...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 9/15/2020 6:02:03 AM (No. 541122)
I agree, we should put tear gas and rubber bullets aside. They should start using live ammunition.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 9/15/2020 6:54:33 AM (No. 541146)
Arm the officers with Teddy bears, that will do the trick.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/15/2020 6:57:54 AM (No. 541149)
What are you going to allow them to have, Markey? Nerf Balls? And this guy is supposed to be better than Joe Kennedy? I really don’t see any difference between the two of them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
subman47 9/15/2020 7:02:37 AM (No. 541155)
I live in Ma. We have the fake Liz Warren for one of our senators and Ed Markey is the other. Both are morons. Markey has tied himself to AOC. Warren is a Bernie Sanders girl. Both hate the police, Pres. Trump, and the American way of life. It's a sad situation here Ma. We have become a one party state. Democrats have no fear because there are so few Republicans to challenge them. I pray that folks here will finally wake up and vote them out.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
John C 9/15/2020 7:15:09 AM (No. 541159)
This year the Republicans may have a shot.
Kevin O'Connor is running against the aging Markey.
Kevin supports Pres.Trump.
https://kocforsenate.com
He could use donations however.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NeverForget 9/15/2020 7:29:03 AM (No. 541167)
Okay then. Just for the rioters and looters with metal bullets.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NeverForget 9/15/2020 7:30:29 AM (No. 541169)
*shoot
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 9/15/2020 7:49:02 AM (No. 541181)
I guess that's why we had so much trouble in Vietnam using "tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, and bean bag rounds."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
greyseal 9/15/2020 8:02:25 AM (No. 541190)
I guess then that the police should be relegated to using harsh language (hat tip to Private Frost in the movie "Aliens").
greyseal
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/15/2020 8:04:32 AM (No. 541191)
Biden: "Weapons of war have no place in our communities. We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines."
Now we have there definition of "Weapons of war". They are coming for your guns, your bean bags, and "you need to just hand over that sling-shot, Jonny"
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Clinger 9/15/2020 8:23:12 AM (No. 541211)
Hey Ed, when the hell did we ever shoot rubber bullets in a war? I knew we used gas back in the Great War but I kind of thought it was more than an irritant.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/15/2020 8:34:32 AM (No. 541222)
Markey swore an oath to protect the public. Statements like this prove he is not. If people were smart and paying attention, Markey would be sent packing. Its a matter of public safety folks. We have to get rid of 'leaders' like this. They do not care about us. All they care about are themselves, and their big-money donors that they work for.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
3XALADY 9/15/2020 8:59:18 AM (No. 541258)
I'm surprised Portland still has a police force.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/15/2020 9:27:22 AM (No. 541292)
What does his security carry? I'm also curious. Who pays for the security for all of these congresscritters? Hopefully not the American taxpayer, but then, we do pay hush money for their sexual indiscretions, so why not this, too?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
padiva 9/15/2020 9:28:31 AM (No. 541295)
How about a target on the backs of policemen?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/15/2020 9:33:58 AM (No. 541302)
When less than lethal methods go away, all that's left is lethal.
And that's OK too.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 9/15/2020 9:36:12 AM (No. 541306)
As Billy Bulger said of him `to a battle of wits, Markey comes unarmed.`
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 9/15/2020 9:40:47 AM (No. 541313)
Lead by example, Sen. Markey. Start by disarming your security details and live exactly they way you think we should. Otherwise your just full of Malarkey.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
privateer 9/15/2020 9:49:39 AM (No. 541327)
Mayor Ted Wardhealer should think twice about tweaking the noses of the Portland Praetorian Guard. But thinking's not his specialty.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 9/15/2020 9:53:17 AM (No. 541334)
What kind of people elects Markey to office? It does not speak well of them.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/15/2020 10:16:03 AM (No. 541359)
There is the stupid category and then comes the people with a "D" after their names who our uninformed fellow citizens elect to Congress. I somehow missed the information that Arlington and Flanders Field must be full of people with rubber bullets in their bodies and tear gas in their lungs.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/15/2020 10:34:58 AM (No. 541395)
Tear gas, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds are polite weapons against the property destroyers Mr. Malarkey (sic). I suggest a FMJ 30 caliber round traveling at 2,800 fps (feet per second) would put a stop to the street violence very quickly and send them home or to the graveyard.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
pmcclure 9/15/2020 10:47:23 AM (No. 541412)
My counter proposal is that all security for elites should be banned. Let them experience anarchy firsthand.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 9/15/2020 10:49:19 AM (No. 541417)
K! We'll get right on that... Idiot!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
vesparado1 9/15/2020 11:28:23 AM (No. 541461)
We really liked those rubber and plastic bullets in Vietnam. But, we LOVED the bean bags.
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