Army Called in Aid of Alabama Police?

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[PghBaldy]

It was repealed by Congress in 2008.

[Lurker]

and a place out near airport called SOPs!

I remember that place...I think.

[WVNan]

The town is near Fort Rucker, so it seems reasonable that they might call for help in such a situation. The guys live there.

[Mr. Silverback]

Plus, IIRC, a very large percentage of the MP units in our force are NG and Reserve units, because the part-time aspect allows them to draw on people who are cops in their civilian lives. The one guy our local MP unit lost in Iraq was a civilian cop nd firefighter as well as a Guardsman.

[Mr. Silverback]

When was that?

[PghBaldy]

When did this happen, and what were the circumstances?

[Mr. Silverback]

I wonder...will Moore have anything to say about the school shooting in Germany today? Germany has very strict gun control laws, yet one kid managed to rack up several more kills than Columbine with only a 9mm Beretta.

[Mr. Silverback]

MARTIAL LAW.

That’s “martial” as in “military” not “Marshall” as in a college with a well-known football team.

[wolfcreek]

Wasn’t it replaced with HSPD-51?

[wolfcreek]

Here in Texas, state troopers, any number of different Fed agencies, Texas Rangers, if something big happened, National guard, but, I’ve never seen the use of active duty military.

This has some sort of stink to it.

[Thunder90]

Using the army for domestic law enforcement is a no-no!

It can be done, if the said army unit is transferred to a state's National Guard and put under command of the state's governor. I think it happened after Hurricane Andrew.

[Thunder90]

Washington, DC is NOT a state, it is federal property, and thus Posse Comatius (SP) doesn’t apply there.

[444Flyer]

Ping

[Tramonto]

Do you think they would fire on their own people? Especially with a military hating President?

No, thats why we need a national security non military army populated with bloods and crips who wouldn't mind shooting a few people.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You need the entire Army to subdue ONE lunatic with a gun?

[ExNewsExSpook]

Disagree...the Alabama Guard has more than its share of Military Police units that can deploy with minimum notice. The guardsmen you see on patrol after a natural disaster are typically members of an MP unit.

However, the soliders in the photo are said to be from Ft. Rucker, an active duty Army installation. Either the media is wrong about the soliders and where they are stationed, or we need some answers as to why active duty troops were called out in the wake of this tragedy. It was a horrific event to be sure, but one that should have been handled by local police, with assistance from state troopers.

[ansel12]

That happened in Washington DC in 1971, about thirteen thousand Americans arrested and thousands went to detention centers, I was shipped to a coliseum for example.

These are paratroopers of the 101st Airborne introducing another generation of southerners to the bayonet in Arkansas during the carefree 50s.

[mtnwmn]

You are so right, and I was so wrong. Wasn’t thinking.....just running my mouth as usual.

[MHGinTN]

"The dispatch of troops to Alabama in response to a local law enforcement situation represents a further erosion of Posse Comitatus and the continued federalization of state and local law enforcement." Um Rucker is in Alabama, so the troops were not 'dispatched to Alabama'. Besides being unable to write a lead line, the author is getting all sorts of data wrong. Was this written in Moscow or soemthing?

[JerseyHighlander]

That might be the best story from the Chicago DNC Riots I’ve ever read.