Special Reports & Tweets - 20141221_SpecialReport-2_Alex
Aired: 2014-12-21
Duration: 04:59


=== Rolling Shield for Police (04:20) ===

[00:00:00]  So what is this for?
[00:00:03]  What do you got?
[00:00:06]  What is this for?
[00:00:09]  This is basically a rolling, like a shield for us, for a team to hide behind.
[00:00:14]  It's bulletproof.
[00:00:15]  What situation would you be in that you would need to pull this out?
[00:00:19]  We have guys that shoot at police officers.
[00:00:22]  So like they have AK-47s or automatic weapons.
[00:00:25]  And they shoot at us, and this is like a rolling, we can use this as a shield to move the team.
[00:00:31]  So what do you call that kind of a vehicle?
[00:00:33]  This is a MRAP, they call it.
[00:00:36]  MRAP, wow.
[00:00:37]  So it's a military surplus vehicle, military you run away from.
[00:00:43]  But now the police, local police, are using it for rioters or things like that.
[00:00:47]  Like Black Friday.
[00:00:48]  You just had Black Friday.
[00:00:49]  That could have been a situation.
[00:00:50]  Basically, it's cover for our team movements.
[00:00:53]  It's bulletproof.
[00:00:54]  There's a lot of people out there with heavy machine guns and heavy weapons.
[00:00:58]  And we use it.
[00:00:59]  It's bulletproof.
[00:01:00]  So we can use it as a shield.
[00:01:03]  And I know there's a lot of people concerned in that the military turning on our own citizens in case there were some event that would trigger that.
[00:01:12]  What do you guys think?
[00:01:14]  How do you guys feel about that?
[00:01:16]  Constitutionally, Obama's just kind of stepping all over anything constitutional right now, so I think people are really afraid of their government right now.
[00:01:23]  And then when you see this kind of a vehicle on, I mean, it seems like this is a campaign, right?
[00:01:30]  All these police officers out in front of Walmart?
[00:01:32]  It's not a campaign, we're doing, uh, we're shopping for children.
[00:01:35]  Oh, you are!
[00:01:36]  Okay, so there's something else.
[00:01:38]  Okay, okay.
[00:01:40]  Oh sure, sure.
[00:01:41]  But you know, from a parent, from a citizen... The kids love to see this stuff for the small team.
[00:01:46]  Sure, sure.
[00:01:47]  Yeah, well my son would too.
[00:01:49]  But then as a citizen and someone who's raising children in a world that I don't know what it's going to look like with them, I feel like this is also kind of a desensitization type of tool where they're going to think it's normal.
[00:02:02]  You know, a lot of kids grow up and AK-47s in the hands of people policing them while they're going to school is normal.
[00:02:08]  Times are crazy right now.
[00:02:09]  Yeah.
[00:02:10]  It's crazy right now.
[00:02:10]  Everything changed.
[00:02:12]  Everything's going crazy, so... I mean, I know you guys are on the front line and you need to be protected, but we're... I know there's a lot of people worried about that turning on citizens who are deemed to be, you know, terrorists, and that is a very loose term now.
[00:02:27]  Who is a terrorist?
[00:02:28]  That's worldwide.
[00:02:29]  It's just everywhere.
[00:02:32]  Well, the nice thing about this piece of equipment is that if somebody is directing fire toward a team that's trying to get in, they can pull right up to a front line and take enemy fire and still try to address a threat without being afraid of getting shot.
[00:02:49]  So I'm thinking that is totally appropriate in Iraq, but what kind of a situation in the U.S.
[00:02:53]  would you see that happening?
[00:02:54]  I mean we've got a lot of Constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons.
[00:02:58]  A lot of ammunition.
[00:03:01]  I mean we've got a lot of Constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons.
[00:03:05]  A lot of ammunition.
[00:03:07]  They have weapons here locally.
[00:03:11]  Do you think that's their right to have those?
[00:03:13]  Or do you think that that's inappropriate?
[00:03:16]  Those people don't always turn on their government.
[00:03:18]  They don't turn on the cops unless there's, you know, I guess reason, they think, to do that.
[00:03:23]  And some of them are pretty in crazy land.
[00:03:25]  Some of them.
[00:03:26]  It's worldwide.
[00:03:27]  The world's in a stable right now.
[00:03:28]  You look anywhere.
[00:03:30]  You watch the news.
[00:03:31]  You watch Open Borders.
[00:03:33]  I know.
[00:03:34]  You know, I mean, we could have this debate.
[00:03:37]  I mean, we could all sit here and talk about it all day long.
[00:03:40]  Our thing is here to look for the kids today.
[00:03:41]  Right.
[00:03:42]  You know, we're showing them our equipment.
[00:03:43]  We're not making it a mystery.
[00:03:45]  It's not a... Yeah.
[00:03:46]  We get officers that are pinned down.
[00:03:47]  This is a great rescue vehicle to get them out of a situation.
[00:03:51]  Sure.
[00:03:51]  I mean, there's been so much on the news.
[00:03:54]  So up there, is that where, um, basically you can attach some type of, uh, of a automatic weapon?
[00:04:00]  Those are lifting points for a crane.
[00:04:02]  Oh, okay.
[00:04:02]  You can lift the body off of it.
[00:04:04]  If they had to do some work on it or something, those are lifting points.

=== Citizen Concerns About Military Vehicles (00:53) ===

[00:04:07]  Okay.
[00:04:09]  Or dropping points with a helicopter.
[00:04:12]  You had to drop in.
[00:04:13]  We have a helicopter.
[00:04:15]  Our helicopter's small.
[00:04:17]  Okay, wouldn't pick this up.
[00:04:18]  You can barely fit three guys in it.
[00:04:20]  Oh.
[00:04:21]  And it actually had a rounded area, so if you actually were to get up top, that part has actually been removed from there.
[00:04:27]  But it could be replaced.
[00:04:29]  Could a turret be put back on that?
[00:04:31]  I suppose you could, if we don't have one.
[00:04:33]  If that makes sense.
[00:04:35]  You don't have one yet?
[00:04:36]  No, we got rid of it because we don't use it.
[00:04:37]  We don't use it for that purpose.
[00:04:39]  But if there was ever a need that someone said you needed to now use it, you could replace it up there?
[00:04:44]  I suppose you could mount whatever you wanted on it, but I mean that's not the purpose.
[00:04:48]  Okay.
[00:04:49]  Yeah.
[00:04:50]  Yeah, I mean this highly concerns me because as a citizen I'm thinking, why do you need this kind of a vehicle on US soil?
[00:04:55]  To rescue people.
[00:04:56]  And putting it out in front of a Walmart to desensitize children.