Washington Post
The House voted not to demilitarize cops just two months ago. Will it be different after Ferguson?
On June 19, the House voted on an amendment to a Department of Defense appropriations bill authored by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.). In short, the amendment would have prevented the military from distributing to local police forces some of heavy weapons and vehicles that the country has seen deployed in response to unrest in Ferguson, Mo.
The amendment failed by a wide margin. But the next time such a vote occurs -- and its increasingly likely that it will -- the results might be very different.
