Federal troops in LA:
The Los Angeles (LA) riots were the most destructive civil disturbance in US history, causing the deaths of at least 54 people and more than $800 million in property damage throughout LA County.[6] More than 10,000 troops from the California National Guard (CANG), 2000 active component soldiers, and 1500 Marines were deployed to the area at the height of operations:
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Lessons in Command and Control from the Los Angeles Riots
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher M. Schnaubelt
1st Battalion, 185th Armor Regiment
“Police officers responded to a domestic dispute, accompanied by marines. They had just gone up to the door when two shotgun birdshot rounds were fired through the door, hitting the officers. One yelled `cover me!’ to the marines, who then laid down a heavy base of fire. . . . The police officer had not meant `shoot’ when he yelled `cover me’ to the marines. [He] meant . . . point your weapons and be prepared to respond if necessary. However, the marines responded instantly in the precise way they had been trained, where `cover me’ means provide me with cover using firepower. . . . over two hundred bullets [were] fired into that house.”
http://www.militarymuseum.org/LARiots1.html
Suppressing fire!
I’m not sure where you’re going with that.
I meant my comment as tongue in cheek. Thus the little winky-face at the end. I think you got that.
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But you bring up some interesting history. It’s been done before. NY Draft Riots (1863). Lincoln deployed Federal troops to put down riots over Civil War draft rules:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
More interestingly, the founder of the New York Times, Henry Raymond, had Gatling guns installed at the entrances to his newspaper. When the rioters showed up, Raymond manned one of the guns himself to repel the crowds.
Can you imagine the Senior Editor/owner of the NY Times today manning a machine gun in the Times lobby to fight off antifa or occupy rioters?!? Great Fun!
How times have changed.
(I wonder what ever happened to those Gatlings. Still in the basement perhaps?)
Oh, and the Guard should have been deployed to Chicago years ago when the city became more dangerous than Baghdad.
FReegards,
Kit