I’ve seen a tremendous increase in police forces having and using sophisticated riot gear, weapons, and vehicles in the last decade or so.
I believed that this apparent militarization of the police first started as a result of joint military/police exercises like Valiant Shield. Archangel Michael took a much longer view of the situation.
Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, June 17, 2020.
Steve: Am I correct in thinking that exercises like Valiant Shield militarized police and what we’re seeing now is the final product, so to speak, of that process… The police showing up in riot gear and having sophisticated vehicles and sophisticated weapons… Is that a correct assertion?
Archangel Michael: What you are seeing in the physical realm is obvious and apparent to all human beings because this is happening to a greater or lesser extent in many, many nations.
What you are seeing is the outfitting, the equipment, the militarization of these forces. Now you are physically seeing what was hidden before.
Steve: When did it start to be hidden? Was it Valiant Shield?
AAM: It has been hidden since the Middle Ages.
Steve: And what is it that has been hidden … that the police serve the state or the ruling class?
AAM: Well, certainly they serve the interests of those who have held power and the interests of power, which, in many instances, is the abuse of power. But in order to have that level of manipulation… And I am not suggesting that this is the complete truth of every single individual who has ever joined a police force….
But what you are seeing is that there has been an attitude, an unspoken code of abuse of power and in many cases of what you might think of as bullying. And those who are police officers (again, this is an overgeneralization) but those who demonstrate that they are a police person are overtly rather controlling, aggressive, in charge.
But the back story to that is in fact that they feel overwhelmed, inadequate, unworthy, and unloved.
So they have chosen to serve as a manipulated force to maintain, not law and order according to universal law or the Mother’s Plan but the status quo.