The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department recently received a donation of 10 Tesla Cybertrucks from a tech billionaire, fully wrapped, decaled with “TACTICAL VEHICLE” stickers, and kitted out for barricaded-shooter situations. The trucks carry ladders, hand-held ballistic shields, and all the aesthetic signals for serious, high-risk police work. At the unveiling, Sheriff Kevin McMahill touted […]
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I guess nobody thought to test the CEO’s wild claims about the vehicle before accepting delivery.
In the USA, military weapons are so plentiful that the army gives police old ones for free. That’s why police departments have ludicrous MRAPs and things, they’re freebies.
So, one billionaire bought another billionaire’s toys and handed them to a politically pliable sheriff, in the same spirit as a Roman patrician might throw a particularly theatrical weapon into the Coliseum fighting pit.
In the USA, military weapons are so plentiful that the army gives police old ones for free. That’s why police departments have ludicrous MRAPs and things, they’re freebies.
So, one billionaire bought another billionaire’s toys and handed them to a politically pliable sheriff, in the same spirit as a Roman patrician might throw a particularly theatrical weapon into the Coliseum fighting pit.