From Occupation To "Occupy": The Israelification Of American Domestic Security

http://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/occupation-occupy-israel-us-police/
Date Written:  2020-06-09
Publisher:  The Grayzone
Year Published:  2020
Resource Type:  Article

One of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials.

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In October, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley into an urban battlefield. The occasion was Urban Shield 2011, an annual SWAT team exposition organized to promote “mutual response,” collaboration and competition between heavily militarized police strike forces representing law enforcement departments across the United States and foreign nations.