Post editors ordered an all-points assault, marshalling at least twenty reporters and columnists in the cause of exposing their counterparts as "scamsters," "goobers," and "pinheads".
Skeptics who viewed the 3-point assault as unsustainable have been proved correct.
They have been firing tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets, and pointing assault rifles at protestors from atop their armoured vehicles.
When they turn on their televisions and see "policemen" in military fatigues and gas masks pointing assault rifles at unarmed protesters, they are shocked, and rightly so.
Mortimer said she was satisfied officers would not have "forced their way into houses occupied by unarmed families... pointing assault rifles at them and yelling at them to lie down" in a community that was not isolated and predominantly Aboriginal.
Officers were also accused of haphazardly pointing assault rifles at protesters and journalists.
Officers also were accused of haphazardly pointing assault rifles at protesters and journalists.
We had been walking on the sidewalk when police yelled, "Walk in the street!" and they pointed assault rifles directly at me.
During his arrest, which sounds like a scene from a Martin Scorsese movie, he said 30 tactical officers pointed assault rifles at his head and at his pregnant wife while they were in bed, then cuffed him face down.
More than a dozen other photographs, Army criminal investigative reports say, show US Army soldiers in Afghanistan pointing assault rifles and pistols at the heads and backs of hooded and bound detainees, and soldiers kicking and punching detainees. .
Since Americans first took in those images from Ferguson of police units outfitted like soldiers, riding in military vehicles, and pointing assault rifles at protesters, the militarization of the police and the way the Pentagon has been supplying them with equipment directly off this country's distant battlefields have been top concerns for police reformers.
