What isn’t mentioned in this story but has been widely reported was that Latino street gangs stood watch at the entrances to their neighborhoods armed to the teeth and didn’t allow any blacks to enter as they were perceived as coming to loot. The also beat up many blacks who ventured too close. This is what happens in a vacuum where the police were all deployed to downtown to the riots and looting going on there and the neighborhoods were left empty of police presence.
Afterwards there was much speechifying by the black and Latino politicians about how they were all in this together, etc and how this was a step back. It actually kinda reminded me of the tail end of World War 2 when the Italians turned on their German “allies”. I’m sure Benito spent a lot of time towards the end trying to remind his Italian followers that they and the Germans were in this struggle together, right up to the time they hung him and his mistress from that bridge.
1. The Gangs in many areas maybe better armed then the Police.
2. The Gangs have no rules of engagement.
3. The Police have to answer for every broken finger nail of their 'victims'.
4. In many areas the local politicians do not support the police.
Now what would a logical police officer do in this situation?
Traditionally no two groups hate each other more than blacks and latinos.
I love knowing that.
If they keep the violence up and continue to tie the hands of the cops this will happen in each ethnic neighborhood. My uncle lived in a suburb of Detroit in 68 and the riots were getting closer and closer to his neighborhood and with a few blocks the men of the neighborhood grabbed their rifles, shotguns and pistols and gathered at that bottleneck bridge to fight it out and the cops told them go home. They all refused and told the cops you deal with them to this bridge, when they try to cross we will deal with them. They stood their ground and the cops stopped them about 2-3 blocks away.
My brother and I were armed up with an AR, AK , pistols at my Dads small business and shotgun Sunday evening when a protest went on in our small town. It was quite but we prepared just in case.