New Video Shows Militarized Police at Obama Event in Illinois
Earlier this week we reported on riot police storm troopers
dispatched in Quincy, Illinois, in response to a Tea Party
demonstration outside an Obama event. The Secret Service told
black-clad riot cops to “push the crowd back as far as you can, out of
sight” outside the the Oakley-Lindsey/Quincy Community Center.
“The Tea Partiers were walking down York after the president’s
motorcade arrived when a Secret Service agent asked the crowd to move
back to the north side of the street,” QuincyNews reports today. “As the crowd was moving
back, the Mobile Field Force, adorned in full body armor, walked
between the crowd and the building, then they turned and faced the
protesters.” READ MORE