You're kidding, US troops were employed during the 1991 LA riots? What did they do, stand around the out-skirts and watch as murder and mayhem was occuring?
The National Guard troops (about 2,000 of them, IIRC) brought the riots to an end, that's all.
78 posted on 12/22/2002 6:41:28 PM PST by Sabertooth