“Sending the military in harms way is part of the soldier’s deal but civilians?”
A least the soldiers are armed and trained how to protect themselves. I am sure the NFL is full of a lot of thugs but I don’t think the items they would need for their personal protection would ever get past customs.
BTW, can someone tell me why changing the game to the next day has any reason to make the situation safer. I was involved with anti-terrorism working for uncle sugar and to my knowledge, they don’t punch a time clock. And some of the players may be in agreement with the rioters anyway.
wy69
Protests gone out of control are not the same thing as terroris, and usually happen on weekends, but, the French surely needed to spread out events to have enough personnel to cover them. They were already shorthanded. The soccer games likely had the biggest footprint, so for that (move them to the likely “slower” Monday) and other (including $$ for the NFL) reasons, it probably made more sense to make the NFL game the one that didn’t “move”.