Alameda County supervisors vote to to scale back, shift focus of Urban Shield

At the Alameda County Board of Supervisors Meeting on February 27, members of the public wait to speak.

After more than five hours of public comment and heated debate, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to approve nearly all of an ad hoc committee’s recommendations to demilitarize the county’s controversial Urban Shield annual training program. They voted 4-0 to eliminate SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) deployment exercises and the event’s…

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