Local police lose assault rifles, Humvees provided by Pentagon

September 9, 2014 in Video by The Manimal

First under fire for its connection the heavy handed police response to protests in Ferguson, MO, the Pentagon’s “1033” program is now at the center of another controversy. The Department of Defense has suspended over 180 police departments across the country for losing scores of military-grade weaponry and vehicles provided by the initiative. M14 and M16 assaults rifles, shotguns, pistols and entire Humvees have slipped through the cracks and are unaccounted for after being transferred to local law enforcement agencies, according to a report by Fusion. RT’s Ameera David takes a look at this latest scandal to surround the program.