If a massive uprising is justification for the militarization of the nations civilian police forces, then maybe what we ougth to be focusing on is the reason behind the uprising, or, better yet, figure out why Joe Q. Citizen is upset, and not inflame the situation by confronting it with militarized law enforcement in MRAP’s, automatic rifles, grenade launchers, road blocks, etc etc etc...
They certainly didn’t do very much to quell the LA riots after the verdict was announced...Huh, you think that they’d have had some sort of cooling off period before such a public announcement...The public in that city was keyed up and ready to hit the streets regardless of the verdict...And the media was right there ready to record it all for posterity...
Strange how that all worked out for the people in those industries, and the people most efffected were the normal business owners and citizens going about their business for that day...
The police were not interested in quelling the riots of LA. The riots of la did not effect or threaten the power structure. The focus of the police now is directed to controlling the slave class, i.e. workers and producers that pay the taxes that support them, the parasites, and the power structure.