I don’t want to see cops in tanks, with military weapons, either-that is not riot gear-that is war gear. And American citizens are not terrorists or enemy combatants, even when they are being ass***s. In the past, when this crap happened, the natguard was called-not the gestapo or the USSR equivalent. That gear and those tanks need to be given to the Border Patrol in Texas and Arizona and put to use against drug and human traffickers-not handed to a police force in a city.
Some innocent person is going to get hurt or killed in the fog of power-madness, and everyone on both sides of the argument will be past talking.
If someone had the presence of mind to keep out the rent-a-mobs and imported looters, I don’t think it would have come to this-the blame is squarely on the agitators and race hustlers like Sharpton-but that police chief doesn’t seem very assertive or effective...
That’s another other good argument for using the National Guard—they are apolitical. Yes, governors call them up, but once military command is set up, the political situation is greatly defused since the troops are not part of the local power structure. And, quite frankly, the Army has a large percentage of minorities—not a bad thing in these situations.