Guard members have already been activated. I can confirm this as of yesterday. Rumors are of Guard movement well before the Gov. declared a state emergency.
People here are feed up with protesters, peaceful or not. The old Marine saying "Is this the hill you want to die on" is not understood by many black community leaders. They are battling for a worthless hill in this case and there is not even sympathy for "peaceful" protesters.
Stories are all over this community about what really happened in the summer protests. Many officers thought they were going to their death. I heard first hand account that the day of the shooting officers on the scene felt they were in grave danger. There were sounds on gunfire in the crowds. The reason the body was in the street for 4 hours is it was unsafe for the coroner to enter the scene.
Gateway pundit reported that Prosecutor is worried about safety of "witnesses might have testified differently under oath, providing different accounts than the ones they gave in media interviews". Now that is a shocker!
Hopefully the National Guard will be out in force. I am picking up family at the airport Thanksgiving morning and will be taking several handguns and a shotgun and battle rifle with me.