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Originally Posted by Deltona Couple
Theoretic situation: Lets say that there was a riot in Dallas, and the Dallas Police department requested police units from say Houston to come help. Would you be ok with that? or do you find a problem with it? After your response I will make my statement.
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It depends. In the US, there have only been a handful of protests that have required additional police (LA riots, WTO, etc.). Dallas has a ton of police, so it would have to be a very large, very unruly protest. It would also depend on how they were behaving. Police have to follow rules, too, and tasing, spraying and shooting with nonlethal projectiles innocent people is unacceptable.
I'm afraid this is apples and oranges, though. Military personnel are held responsible not by civilian court but military court, which is different. Military personnel have very different training than police in dealing with pretty much any situation. The military has access to more substantial armament. I think you can see where this is going. It's nothing personal to military, but really the military can do a lot more damage to a crowd of protesters than your average police department. Moreover, there's no recent precedence for the local police not being able to deal with protesters, which makes me question why they might need the military all of a sudden.