” The over-confidence escalated matters and delayed the governor’s response of calling in the National Guard.”
No. They went in with a ‘Hug a Thug’ campaign which went south in a hurry. Capt. Johnson said there would be no force by the police .... ‘we will talk to people doing wrong and ask them to be nice’.
No, they did that after the first night and complaints about militarized police surfaced...