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"The National Guardsmen on active duty in Los Angeles are carrying weapons but don't have rounds in the chamber, and they aren't using rubber bullets or pepper spray, according to a U.S. official."

It's difficult to discern some uniforms from another with all the video and stills, but someone shot an female Aussie reporter in the ankle or calf. Having seen the uniformed shooter highlighted in one particular video, it looks like he was aiming directly at her legs.

What the hell is going on in that city? They have their own police force including SWAT, now some 2000 National Guard and now the President has sent 700 Marines which I don't think are needed. Yet, today has been fairly quite.

What ever happened to water cannons? They used to be effective for crowd/riot control.

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I have been asking that for years. Maybe someone here knows..

“What ever happened to water cannons? They used to be effective for crowd/riot control.”

Water hoses and dogs have both lost favor because of the remembered optics of their use against agitators in the South during the 1960s.

So too the use of less-than-lethal cattle prods. The use of horses has made something of a comeback.