Quote Originally Posted by p69rrh51 View Post
This one comes under the heading of you had to be there! There were elements of the Michigan National Guard[[not a big deal) and the 82nd Airborne Division[[Very big deal) deployed during the riots. Enough said!
I'm not sure that the fact that the 82nd Airborne Division getting involved is as big a deal as you suggest given that a single black teenager walking around often requires a four to five squad car response. A riot involving a few hundred or a couple thousand people of color would absolutely be a national emergency and no one knew better the dire situation than the police who had run roughshod over the black community for decades.