UNDERNEWS: Hundreds of police departments buying ear damaging sonic weapons to use against protesters

January 10, 2019

Hundreds of police departments buying ear damaging sonic weapons to use against protesters

Activist Post -A recent article in the Mohave Valley Daily News revealed that DHS is using grant money to equip Arizona police departments with military-grade sound cannons or Long Range Acoustic Devices..... The mass media has known about DHS’s plan to equip police departments with LRADs for more than a decade but has remained largely silent.

A Washington Times article from 2009, titled “DHS helps local police buy military-style sonic devices” warned everyone that military-grade sound cannons are being used against Americans.

With the help of Homeland Security grants, police departments nationwide looking to subdue unruly crowds and political protesters are purchasing a high-tech device originally used by the military to repel battlefield insurgents and Somali pirates with piercing noise capable of damaging hearing.

LRAD boasts that 400 law enforcement agencies from across the country have purchased their sound cannons.

1 comment:

Greg Gerritt said...: The Department of Homeland Insecurity is a criminal operation, running guns to killers in uniform.; January 11, 2019 at 5:41 PM

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