The reason Abbott is doing this, back in the 1990s Clinton also conducted military exercises in towns and no one bothered to tell the local law enforcement they were going to do it.
Townspeople, including law enforcement, didn’t have the slightest clue what a bunch of helicopters with armed people repelling down onto rooftops in the town in the middle of the night were doing.
One town was Kingsville, Texas.
In Texas it’s not a real bright idea to have people dropping out of helicopters onto someone’s private property without getting permission to do it first.
Someone could get shot.
Note the key word.. FORMER
Someone could get shot.
Someone did. In Waco.