The Federal Aviation Administration has restricted air space above the Missouri town where protesters and police have clashed seen the police shooting of an African-American teen.
The Hill reported that the agency said it issued the order “to provide a safe environment for law enforcement activities.”
Police had said that shots were fired at a police helicopter on Monday, KMOZ reported. ThinkProgress reported that the restriction would prevent news helicopters from flying over the city.
The order is in effect until Monday.
Well, that’s not at all provocative.
Exactly. “The only drones in the air will be our drones.”
Why is it that this one-and-one-half horse town has an armored personnel carrier and SWAT team kitted out like special forces?
The FAA is treating this like the Ukraine?
Huh?
I have a friend who lives in one of those one light one intersection towns and after 911 and when the Dept of Homeland Security was created his small town, like thousands of other small American towns, became militarized with military weapons, gear, training, and crowd control vehicles, even for towns with less than 20,000 residents. And now they finally get to use it.
And when South Carolina played Georgia a few years back (football) the local police used crowd control trained military police just in case you know, drunken fans.
When will Ted Cruz accuse Barack Obama of using the FAA in an ‘economic boycott of Missouri’?