On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 05:54:17PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
http://www.wcjb.com/content/news/Virginia-guardsman-says-he-was-ordered-to-t...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An Army National Guard officer charged with driving an armored personnel carrier off base while under the influence of drugs insisted Thursday he was ordered to do so as part of a training exercise and called the charges against him "completely bogus."
Yabut told The Associated Press he was first notified of the training exercise by his commander a week before he drove the vehicle away Tuesday evening from Fort Pickett. Yabut said he was later given the command in coded military language to conduct the exercise, which he said was aimed at gauging police response.
"A swarm" of Virginia police vehicles followed him for a significant period of time. Interesting police-system boundary/shock test. So what was going on in the other direction which required majority/ all the on duty local highway patrol and police vehicles to be distracted with something that none of those vehicles could put a relevant stop to, and one or two vehicles with a small handful of officers would have been plenty to handle the final stop of this fuel-hungry plant-food generating machine. Not all cops are part of the club, so a big public showy highway drag race against the APC was perhaps a convenient way to distract 'em...