[CorporateStepsister]

I’m glad the guard wasn’t there. It would have only escalated.

[Olog-hai]

Escalated into what? Did the “protesters” have weapons that could withstand the Guard?

It took the Guard to quell the chaos in Los Angeles post-Rodney King. Have they lost this ability?

[ansel12]

This is a riot.

“” Elements of the 82nd and 101st U.S. Army Airborne Divisions were mobilized outside of the city. As the situation in Detroit worsened, Romney told Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, “We gotta move, man, we gotta move.” Near midnight on July 24, President Johnson authorized thousands of paratroopers to enter Detroit.

Johnson went on national television to announce his actions and made seven references to Romney’s inability to control the riot using state and local forces. Thousands of arrests took place and the rioting continued until July 27. The final toll was the largest of any American civil disturbance in fifty years: 43 dead, over a thousand injured, 2,500 stores looted, hundreds of homes burned, and some $50 million overall in property damage.

[Paul R.]

If that’s the case, why didn’t the situation really explode when the Guard WAS finally sent in?

[RandallFlagg]

I’m glad the guard wasn’t there. It would have only escalated.

From what I'd heard, the guard was there.
They were busy, too.

Guarding government buildings.

[kearnyirish2]

These issues have to escalate to let nature take its course; what hope do these areas have if private property isn’t protected?

Would you ever build a home or open a business there?