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## Video: Baton Rouge Police Chief: ‘We Are Up Against a Force That Is Not Playing by the Rules’

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_Published 2016-07-18. The head of the Baton Rouge Police Department said law enforcement officers in the country are facing a “force that is not playing by the rules” during a somber news conference Monday._


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## Transcript

I could not be more proud of these officers. I could not be more proud of my swat team. We been question for the last three or four weeks about our militarized tactics and our militarized law enforcement. This is why, because we are up against a force that is not playing by the rules. They haven't played by the rules. They didn't play by the rules in Dallas, and they didn't play by the rules here. This is why, we don't ever wanna use it, but we have to have the ability to use it when we needed it, and we needed it here. Our militarized tactics, as they're being called, saved lives here. That shot That our SWAT team made was a hell of a shot but it had to be made, we had to neutralize the threat right there.

We could not let it go any further.

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