Remembering how a kid in Florida back in the 1990s got shot by police because the wrapper on his Three Musketeers bar looked like a chrome pistol, and Three Musketeers switched their wrapper design to the Italian flag colors for a few years.

Cops didn't militarize because people were shooting at them. Cops militarized because they lost control during uprisings from the 60s-90s. They used incidents like the North Hollywood Shootout to justify militarization, but then used it entirely to oppress poor and minority neighborhoods.