Post Charlie Hebdo Terror Attack, Schultz Says 'You Start to Understand' Militarization of Police

1/9/2015
By Mark Finkelstein

Could the Charlie Hebdo attack be opening the eyes of some in the liberal media?

On his MSNBC show this evening, Ed Schultz surprisingly said "when something like [Charlie Hebdo] comes up, when you start talking about the militarization of police you start understand it a little bit or maybe to view it in a different light."   Welcome to the real world, Ed.

Ever since Ferguson, hand-wringing over police militarization has been a major MSM sport. We'll be on the lookout to see if at MSNBC, the awakening to reality spreads beyond the Schultz [and Matthews] shows.

ED SCHULTZ: Michael [O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution], how much more can we tighten the grip on society to prevent things like this? There is a great deal of pervasiveness that's going on right now that a lot of people object to, but now when something like this comes up, when you start talking about the militarization of police you start understand it a little bit or maybe to view it in a different light. 

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