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Police militarization is not a new thing. The LAPD was smashing down the walls of suspected crack houses with this battering ram vehicle in 1986. : r/pics
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LAPD Officers Stand Next to Ram Tanker, Los Angeles, 1985 - Tom & Ethel Bradley Center Photographs - CSUN University Library Digital Collections
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