political protests are not the kind of crowd control the military would be called in to help with.
crowd control during a catastrophe and panic, such as katrina or a dirty bomb
why quote only part of his sentence...the fact is that the military has been used before on call. now they have a command center to help coordinate faster response teams and place the agencies under central control rather than at will.
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