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This just continues to break my heart. We've got this very small number of radicals destroying our national history, our monuments, statues of our brave and heroic founders and NOBODY is stopping them. The DAs, prosecutors and judges are running revolving door systems putting them right back not the streets. DAs are refusing to prosecute. Cops are demoralized everywhere and massive early retirements are happening all over. PDs are unable to recruit new cops.

In July 1967, President Johnson authorized the use of federal troops in compliance with the Insurrection Act of 1807, which authorizes the President to call in armed forces to fight an insurrection in any state against the government. This gave Detroit the distinction of being the only domestic American city to have been occupied by federal troops three times. The United States Army's 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division had earlier been positioned at nearby Selfridge Air Force Base in suburban Macomb County. Starting at 1:30 on Tuesday, July 25, some 8,000 Michigan Army National Guardsmen were deployed to quell the disorder. Later, their number would be augmented with 4,700 paratroopers from both the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, and 360 Michigan State Police officers.

This is LONG, LONG overdue in the current insurrection.