This is part two of Salon.com's excerpts from the book: "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The militarization of America's Police Forces." To read the first ("Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book."): http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/“why_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_...

and the corresponding hacker news discussion of the first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6001843