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Originally Posted by btimbit
Definitely the bigger issue here.
The state had given up. Naturally, rightly or wrongly, the next step is people are going to take it into their own hands
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I don’t know that the state had given up. There were something like 250 national guard deployed by Tuesday. But they had their hands full securing the courthouse, post office, and other public buildings that had been attacked the previous evenings, and protecting firefighters. So yeah, most of the community was on their own to protect their property from looters and arsonists.