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Will, that's interesting. Sorry I missed your answer to the question before I asked it.
You know, I sometimes think we look to the wrong places for explanations of problematic state violence. Is the answer in the event iself - in some tactical failure to respond properly to a given situation - or is it somewhere else, in the social milieu? State violence only becomes necessary when more sophisticated versions of state power - ideology - begin to break down and lose their effectiveness, and we are after all living in a fairly disillusioned and disaffected period in US history.
I think the crisis, to the extent there is one, is located primariliy on the plane of legitimacy, not one of bottles and rubber bullets.
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