Homeland Security gives UC-Berkeley armored counterattack truck despite Occupiers pleas

From Fox Nation

Department of Homeland Security officials gave the University of  California-Berkeley a $200,000 grant to purchase an “armored response  counterattack truck” for its campus police department, to the dismay of Occupy  protesters in the area.

“The eight-ton vehicle, commonly referred to as a “Bearcat,” is used by U.S.  troops on the battlefield and is often equipped with a rotating roof hatch,  powered turrets, gun ports, a battering ram, and a weapon system used to  remotely engage a target with lethal force,” according to Campus Reform.

UC-Berkeley officials told Campus Reform they asked for the counterattack  truck grant after a case last year in which they wrongly believed that a man was  armed with an AK-47.

Local Occupy Wall Street protesters tried to persuade the school not to  purchase the vehicle. “I’m asking, please stay out of this urban warfare stuff,” Daniel Borgstrom, an Occupier and former Marine, told the city council at a June  meeting, according to Inter Press Service News Agency.

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