Posted on 11/04/2008 2:54:12 AM PST by xzins
TOLEDO, OHIO -- Toledo police are gearing up for possible "Civil unrest" during and after tomorrow's elections.
In an internal memo obtained exclusively by NBC 24 News, officers are ordered to "Have their riot equipment with them Tuesday and Wednesday". Police chief Mike Navarre confirms, officers will have gear similar to the equipment they used during the 2005 race riots. "They have been asked to have their helmets and their gas masks available tomorrow and Wednesday.", Navarre says, "That's the equipment they would not normally carry with them on a normal day".
Navarre also says, officers will not be stationed at individual polling stations. But the memo says otherwise. It reads, "On Tuesday, units shall be directed to patrol the polling locations".
bttt
My brother is a cop in Jacksonville FL and he said they will have 140 additional officers on duty for the next 2-3 days.
I am going to loot Victoria’s Secret. The wife would like some sexy underbritches!
I was wondering if we conservatives who are voting for Repubs aught to threaten to riot if a Dem wins???
I believe you. Others are reporting that their police or fire units are on some level of alert due to the election.
I think that we’re likely to see disturbance whether McCain wins or loses.
My rural community in Ohio is a throwback, I guess, to earlier years. I expect total peace and friendliness at our polling places. We’ll chat and laugh, wait or turn, and joke with the poll workers, whom we’ll all know.
No one will get free beer or piercings or tatoos or food baskets for proving they’ve voted.
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