President Trump will revive a program that provides local police departments with surplus military equipment such as high-caliber weapons and grenade launchers, despite past concerns that armored vehicles and other gear were inflaming confrontations with protesters.

Lake Tahoe authorities have a man in custody after he allegedly ran from police and barricaded himself in a car he is accused of stealing.

President Barack Obama says the use of militarized gear by local police departments can give the public the feeling that law enforcement is like "an occupying force.