The ACLU states that people wouldn’t act out if they didn’t feel SWAT had so much power over them (ACLU, 2016). Throughout history and today, when there is a SWAT presence, there is a group who will stand off with them. In the 1960’s it was the race riots (Francis, 2016), and the riots in Baltimore in April 2015 over the shooting of a black man, Freddy Gray (Graham, 2015). All of these riots have one theme in common, the belief that having heavily armed SWAT teams present increased the tension and eventually lead to the
The ACLU states that people wouldn’t act out if they didn’t feel SWAT had so much power over them (ACLU, 2016). Throughout history and today, when there is a SWAT presence, there is a group who will stand off with them. In the 1960’s it was the race riots (Francis, 2016), and the riots in Baltimore in April 2015 over the shooting of a black man, Freddy Gray (Graham, 2015). All of these riots have one theme in common, the belief that having heavily armed SWAT teams present increased the tension and eventually lead to the