Yes..These were a special gift of the Obama administration.
Although the agency was formed back in the 70’s, it was during the Obama administration they began showing up on American streets..a spin off of Dept.of Homeland Security.
I began seeing the white SUV’s with a blue stripe across the front quarter panels. These SUV’s started showing up around the time Obama approved the distribution of excess/surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies across the nation.
Police departments now sport MRAPs. Mine resistant military vehicles. Check out the Rutherford Institute. John Whitehead, a conservative constitutional atty. wrote a book called “Battlefield America” which documents the federal militarization of American law enforcement agencies across America in a perverted work around of the Posse Comitatus act protecting American citizens from the federal government utilizing military as local law enforcement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
https://www.rutherford.org/
https://www.rutherford.org/multimedia/on_target
Yet, WHERE is this militarized police force when we need it?
The insurrection act.