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DESCRIPTION:KSCO owner Michael Zwerling was at the 2-11 forum opposing the BearCat 
 armored personnel vehicle.  Regretful that he didn't broadcast the forum 
 live, he invited participants to come on the air on his Saturday Morning 
 Special show. \n\nThe BearCat (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response 
 Counter Attack Truck) slipped through City Council last December on 
 apparently false information about "beating the deadline" is one symptom of 
 a growing militarization of police forces, locally and across the 
 nation.\n\nSteve Pleich summarized the forum at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/12/18768432.php ["Local Activists 
 Continue to Press the Issue on the BearCat and 
 Militarization"].\n\nActivists have shown up in numbers at 4 successive 
 City Council meetings [See "BearCat Battle Moves Forward in Santa Cruz, 
 City Council May Revisit Issue in March" at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/12/18768436.php ].  They've 
 demanded the vehicle be rejected and returned and that new policies of 
 greater public notice and SCPD transparency be put into place.\n\nZwerling 
 has  invited me, Abbi Samuels of SCRAM, and Courtney Hanson of Sin Barras 
 to discuss these issues.  As a representative of HUFF (Homeless United for 
 Friendship and Freedom), I will be focusing on broader issues of SCPD 
 racial and class profiling, , lack of transparency, and use of force.  Abbi 
 will be speaking as a member of Santa Cruzans Resistance Against 
 Militarism.  Sin Barras is concerned with prison reform and abolition.   
 \n\nKeith McHenry may appear in my stead if I'm unable to make it for 
 health reasons. \n\nHUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) has 
 sponsored three past protests at Laurel and Center ["Cop Corner"] next to 
 the police station to draw attention to the disproportionate citing of poor 
 people and people of color downtown by some officers.  \n\nWith the 
 national outrage against police brutality in the wake of Ferguson and other 
 police killings, it's the right time to focus on problems in the SCPD.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/13/18768469.php
SUMMARY:BearCat and Militarization in Santa Cruz on KSCO Radio
LOCATION:www.KSCO.com  and/or 1080 AM.  \n\nCall in number: 831-479-1080
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/13/18768469.php
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