New Machine-Gun Unit in NYPD

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[The unit] is designed to deal with events like our recent protests or incidents like Mumbai, or what just happened in Paris, Bratton said Thursday. It will be equipped and trained in ways that our normal patrol officers are not.

He added that the unit would be suited up with, extra heavy protective gear, with the long rifles and the machine guns that are unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances.

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Richard Sherman and Marshawn Lynch are Black Heroes

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For me, Lynch, Sherman and black men and women like them represent active resistance to these subtle microaggressions, which are ensconced in white supremacy. They do not pander to, coddle or center whiteness in their media interactions and it is their radical sense of agency that unnerves some (read: white) people. It unsettles their latent sense of entitlement, driving them to scream “thug” — the same way that slave masters screamed “nigger.” It’s a reflexive response to black autonomy, marking those bodies as sites of terror.

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