In Keene, NH the police hired ‘members of unspecified law enforcement agencies’, plain-clothed snipers, stationed atop buildings for the family friendly Keene Pumpkin Festival.
We suspect these guys are from the Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit, the group for which the Concord police department sponsored that Bearcat grant.
THIS IS A PRIVATE FOR PROFIT CONTRACTOR THAT NH TAXPAYERS SUBSIDIZE!
Private para-military operating under the color of law in NH, with citizen funding!
CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT
We remember military (photographers or snipers?) atop the parking garage, with their long lenses trained upon us at the 2009 tea party rally which drew 4,000 attendees. Stay tuned as we get more information on this issue.