Broward County taxpayer dollars at work and you can bet we are paying for similar protections through PBSO. Too bad public services need to be used as part of the promotional tools used by protesters. Perhaps the better choice is to ignore them? Click title for link to article.
About 40 Broward Sheriff's deputies and Sunrise Police officers trained for three days with the tools and techniques used to safely end hard-core demonstrations such as those seen at the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle in 1999, which inspired this training.
And this:
"We were deployed a couple of years ago during the Air and Sea Show for some demonstrators out in Fort Lauderdale at a car dealership," he said. "Actually, when they saw the lights and sirens and the big trucks and the tools getting ready to come out, they let go and said, 'We don't want to play.' "
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