Military/Law Enforcement Contractor Brought in to Train Police for NATO-G8 Protests

A contracting firm that specializes in anti-terrorism and force protection training, consulting and management services has been hired to train Cook County Sheriff’s Police in the run-up to the NATO-G8 meetings that are to be held in Chicago in May of this year.

Tony Grano, who has trained US Marines, police and security forces in America, tells Padilla:

[Protesters] need to be handled with kid gloves, but there’s a job that still needs to be done, and that is to maintain order. Back in the old days when we used to do this, somebody started coming to help during a fight started jumping in, gets their two seconds in. That isn’t fine today. There are video cameras, cell phones, so you have to be careful,

Basically, Grano works for a firm that is necessary now because YouTube exists, because there is Twitter and the Internet, which can spread evidence of police brutality quickly. Controlled FORCE’s value is that it teaches police a tactic that will not look obviously brutal if the tactic is caught on video.