Concurring bump...
One can only imagine how things might have escalated if the police weren’t there to squash it.
“One can only imagine how things might have escalated if the police weren’t there to squash it.”
The more I have read and reread, the more it supports that conclusion.
The police had nothing to gain from being there, being outnumbered ~ 10 to 1 by known outlaw gang members. Except that it was their job to be there.
Upon analysis by my military mind [OK proud US Army retiree!], I have to admit it was a pretty good LE response / operation. Mind you, I was taken in by all the emotional descriptions early on, too. But when you take away the emotional descriptions and look at the facts . .
. . . LE had intel of something going down.
They showed up anyway, vastly outnumbered;
they weren’t hiding, the vehicles alone showed they were there.
. . . yes some of them were not in the best physical shape
but they somehow managed, in a few seconds, to stop the carnage.
It does also seem to me that some of those arrested might be more innocent than others. Yet the bail is due to the District Attorney and Judge, not the cops.
Upon serious reflection after much reading and analysis, this seems to have been a pretty good LE operation. I would not have wanted my husband to go out there and face those odds on a Sunday.