Cassius Methyl

October 29, 2014

(The Anti Media) After spending over $172,000 on riot gear since the beginning of the protests in Ferguson, MO over the killing of Michael Brown, the St. Louis police department has enough toxic gas, pepper spray balls, and tools to induce human suffering to last several more months of protests.

The things they spent this money on include about $25,000 for 650 teargas grenades, “hornets nest” CS sting grenades that explode and send rubber bullets flying along with toxic chemicals, smoke-and-gas grenades, and smoke canisters.

They also spent $18,000 on 1,500 beanbag rounds and 6,000 pepper balls. Pepper balls are like paintballs filled with pepper spray of course.

The department even made the decision to specifically choose “LiveX branded pepper balls”, reportedly 10 times stronger than other pepper balls.

$77,500 additionally went towards 235 riot gear helmets, 135 shields, 25 batons and 60 sets of shin guards, among more equipment to protect the people assaulting protesters with what could be called paintballs filled with pepper spray.

Despite having seemingly unlimited funds, this department had better realize that none of that will stop these protesters.

Their efforts to try and stop the movement only become transparent and further exposes just how ridiculous this whole thing is: spending over $170,000 on tools of human suffering to punish people who wish to spend their time voicing opposition to the police murdering unarmed people.

So here’s your report on just how ridiculous the efforts of this department is.

Please share this info with absolutely as many people as possible to show just how low this department is willing to go to punish peaceful protestors.

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