A nice robins-egg blue would make this so much less scary.
The problem, Dallas Deputy Police Chief Malik Aziz told Fox News this weekend, isn't the fact that local cops are weaponized to the hilt, beyond what
troops in actual war zones have. It's that the people in these towns
perceive that the cops are an occupying force. He says there's a simple fix:
paint the tanks blue. No, really.
Aziz added that “most times it looks like a war zone because they haven't painted" equipment like armored vehicles and tanks.
"They're still military colors," he remarked. "Maybe if they were black or blue, it would change the perception of it. But rolling it out and an unnecessary time, that brings unwanted attention to it, and we're going to have to be smarter because some of the equipment is needed."
And maybe they could make the tear gas smell like baby powder. Or paint their bullets. Just think how much less Michael Brown would be dead if they used pink bullets.