Vice News obtained the complete inventory of military leftovers secured since 2007 by the Ferguson, Missouri, police department under the Pentagon Defense Logistics Agency 1033 program. Nothing on the list matched up with the militarized equipment police deployed during the protests. What Ferguson did receive from the DLA were non-tactical items like laptop computers, utility trucks, a generator, and mittens for "extreme cold weather." The obvious question: Where did Ferguson police get the military equipment it allegedly used during the protests, and how did the department purchase it? When Vice posed the question to the Ferguson Police Department, an officer hung up the phone on us. Three subsequent calls back resulted in the same response.
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