Uh what??? HEAT RAY (aka ‘Pain Ray Gun’) was proposed by Trump’s DOD to quell DC protestors in June! The head of DOD Military Police suggested it. The device "provides a sensation of intense heat on the surface of the skin” described as “overwhelming”. 🧵
npr.org/2020/09/16/913…’
2) email from the Provost Marshal of Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region reveal he was looking for two things: a long range acoustic device, a kind of sound cannon known as an LRAD, and a device called the Active Denial System, or ADS....
3) “ADS was developed by the military some 20 years ago as a way to disperse crowds. There have been questions about whether it worked, or should be deployed in first place. It uses millimeter wave technology to essentially heat the skin of people targeted by its invisible ray.”
4) The email went on to say that the ADS can direct a beam toward a group and that "provides a sensation of intense heat on the surface of the skin. The effect is overwhelming, causing an immediate repel response by the targeted individual."
5) Crazier—DHS once considered same thing to use on migrants at the border. But then DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen shout in down
➡️ Let that sink it —the pain ray heat gun was EVEN TOO INHUMANE for HOMELAND! But sure let’s maybe use it on DC protestors?!
nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/…
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