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August 20, 2014

Pentagon Defends Program That Supplied Military Gear to Ferguson Police 
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The Pentagon is continuing to defend a program that gives excess
military equipment to domestic police departments like the one in
Ferguson, Missouri. Pentagon spokesperson Rear Admiral John Kirby listed
the equipment Ferguson has received through the program.

Rear Admiral John Kirby: "The Ferguson Police Department since 2007 has
— the Defense Logistics Agency has transferred to them —
this is excess property — two Humvees, one generator and one cargo
trailer to this Ferguson Police Department. Now, in all of St. Louis
County over that same period of time, which includes Ferguson, six
pistols, 12 rifles, 15 weapons sites, an EOD robot, three helicopters,
seven Humvees, as I said, two of which are being used by Ferguson, and
two night vision devices."

 

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