This shooting was a very sad memory but I hope we at least learned something from it. For example: when weapons are involved and there is confrontation, don't count on a peaceful outcome.
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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
...As far as I can recall, it was the first time since the Civil War that US military troops fired on fellow Americans...
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That just seems unlikely to me, especially in the arena of "labor" conflicts. A quick search turned up a few other possibilities of US military shootings (along with many other local/state militias and "official" guards shooting people):
July 14, 1877
A general strike halted the movement of U.S. railroads. In the following days, strike riots spread across the United States. The next week, federal troops were called out to force an end to the nationwide strike. At the "Battle of the Viaduct" in Chicago, federal troops (recently returned from an Indian massacre) killed 30 workers and wounded over 100.
1894
Federal troops killed 34 American Railway Union members in the Chicago area attempting to break a strike, led by Eugene Debs, against the Pullman Company. Debs and several others were imprisoned for violating injunctions, causing disintegration of the union.