LA Mayor Garcetti calls for National Guard help: 'This is no longer a protest. This is destruction'

[allenk893]

Originally Posted by BBBentley

The news is that Garcetti only called out the troops after many residents of Beverly Hills complained that the mob was getting way too close to them.

Uh, oh, tough decision; curry favor with the thugs or alienate the dem mega-donor base?

As usual, money talks the loudest.
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This. None of it is sincere.

[suzy_q2010]

Originally Posted by ohio_peasant

Surely it's inconceivable, that any of this is related to two-and-a-half months of shutdown, of denial of basic business activity and societal function? It's impossible, isn't it, that unemployed, desperate and just plainly annoyed people would lash-out, given the least pretext?

Odds are the rioters were unemployed before COVID-19 and would have been rioting if Floyd's death had been a year ago. The goal is looting and getting stuff. They do not care about Floyd.

People who are unemployed and who want to be employed again are not rioting, no matter how fed up they are with the attempt to mitigate the coronavirus.

[kanonka]

Civilized world should strongly condemn use of force on these freedom fighters and impose sanctions on this tyrannical government! EU can step up as a mediator between POTUS and protest leaders to resolve the issue!

At least that's how it has been done in the past ... for other countries.

[Du Ma]

Originally Posted by Astral_Weeks

Most of the time, the National Guard is under the control of individual states, with the state governor acting as commander in chief. The Mayor's request for the guard was made to the Governor.

You clearly aren't a scholar in government or law enforcement.

Correct.

The NG reports to POTUS under Title 10 and reports to governor under Title 32.

But in this situation I am assuming they are going to be under Title 32 for riot control/law enforcement duty.