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If you’ve noticed, in the past few years, that the behavior and tactics of American police<\/a> resemble those of Israeli police and soldiers,<\/a> you’d be right — and these tactics<\/a> have come into even sharper focus with the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Minneapolis, Minnesota recently.<\/p>\n

Military occupation tactics, collective punishment, terrorizing and brutalizing neighborhoods, shooting kids for throwing stones — filthy, bloody Israel taught U.S. police everything they know.<\/p>\n

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“Israel-trained police ‘occupy’ Missouri after killing of black youth”<\/strong><\/a>
\nRania Khalek, Electronic Intifada 08.15.14<\/em><\/p>\n

“From NYC, Ferguson To Baltimore, American Police Are Trained In Apartheid Israel”<\/strong><\/a>
\nKit O’Connell, MintPress News 05.15.15<\/em><\/p>\n

“U.S. Police Routinely Travel to Israel to Learn Methods of Brutality and Repression”<\/strong><\/a>
\nJustin Gardner, Free Thought Project 08.30.15<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve noticed, in the past few years, that the behavior and tactics of American police resemble those of Israeli police and soldiers, you’d be right — and these tactics have come into even sharper focus with the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Minneapolis, Minnesota recently. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[734,5,168],"tags":[732,1466,735,167,135,733,570],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-lives-matter","category-liberty","category-palestine","tag-alton-sterling","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-dallas","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-philando-castile","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}