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September 23rd, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
A grenade launcher is the best way to ensure peace and protect a 25-inmate jail, according to a Wyoming sheriff. It is the third such weapon owned by the Goshen County Sheriff’s Office in the past 65 years, though none have ever been used.
Sheriff Don Murphy told the Casper Star-Tribune that the county
bought the grenade launcher from Wyoming weapons manufacturer
Defense Technology.
“We would use it in situations when less-lethal force is
justified to get the situation under control,” Lt. Jeremy
Wardell said. “That tool gives us an option not to use lethal
force.”
Wardell said the weapon is similar to pepper spray or a Taser.
Officials said deputies could use the launcher to fire tear gas
in a hostage situation. But Goshen County has not had a large
fight or break out in 15 years, according to Wardell, who
oversees the jail.
The riot-control weapons provide temporary incapacitation through
blunt trauma, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
The 40-millimeter weapon files a single grenade.
“It’s just another option in that middle area between verbal and
lethal force,” Wardell said. “We have the ability to use
it in the jail as well.”
The grenade can also fire rubber pellets during a prison riot,
Murphy said. But to say such brawls are an uncommon occurrence in
the 25-person jail would be an understatement.
“I’ve worked for the agency for 16 years, and we’ve never had
a riot we couldn’t control,” Wardell admitted to the
Star-Tribune.
Linda Burt, executive director at the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) of Wyoming, condemned the department’s ownership of
the weapon.
“Just because they haven’t used them doesn’t mean they don’t
plan on using them,” she said. “I think the problem has
been more about the fact that the federal government has
encouraged people to take this equipment.”
She believes the weapon would provide more hindrance than help.
“It changes the attitude of not only the population but of
the police,” Burt said. “It turns that law enforcement
officer into a soldier instead of a police officer out there to
serve and protect. The community then becomes an enemy.”
Goshen is the only county in the state that’s listed by the
Department of Defense (DoD) as having received a grenade
launcher, the Star-Tribune reported. But several other Wyoming
counties have participated in the DoD’s Excess Property Program,
better known as the 1033 Program.
“Converse County has four armored vehicles and Albany County has
one. Sweetwater County has 60 assault rifles and Fremont County
has 29,” Burt wrote in a Star-Tribune op-ed. “Natrona County has four armored
vehicles and up to 60 assault rifles; Laramie County has an
armored vehicle, assault rifles, flak vests and night vision
goggles. Washakie, Big Horn and Hot Springs Joint Tactical
Emergency Response Team acquired an armored vehicle last year.”
The increasing militarization of American police departments has
come under heavy criticism since police responded with
overwhelming force and military equipment to riots and
protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old by an
officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August.
In June, an ACLU report titled ‘War Comes Home: The Excessive
Militarization of American Policing’ found that police
departments with military weapons became “hyper
aggressive” in their approach to maintaining security on the
streets of America.
Goshen County has a population of 14,000. It received its first
grenade launcher, a 37mm, in the 1950s from Federal Signal,
Murphy said. The weapon was never used, yet the county then
received an M79 single-shot grenade launcher from the military
surplus program. Wardell said the county does not have records on
the second weapon, as it was later returned to the federal
government.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/189780-wyoming-county-jail-grenade-launcher/
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