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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Facebook page of the "Christian" band who started the brawl at Walmart
https://www.facebook.com/Matthew24NowXemaSab
(60,212 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)They seem to think it makes them appear to have more biblical knowledge then they actually do.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Just wow.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)boy am I out of it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)but I still remember my parents' dismay while watching it and my far-more-conservative grandfather's muted words of approval for the police's actions.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Leading our contingency riot control squad was one of the 36 "additional duties" I had whlle serving as Executive Officer of the post's Special Troops company and we were on 24-hour alert to deploy there.
It's a good thing they didn't send us, though, as all of our training had been for Vietnam and we had zero training in civilian riot control. And some damn fool idiot probably would have issued us live ammo.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)realize that the U.S. military had any possible plans to intervene in the events of Chicago '68 (and I think your deployment there would have represented a blatant violation of posse comitatus), Even though you were only 19, I strongly suspect your unit had far more fire discipline than Daley's pigs (based upon the judiciousness of your posts here). That was truly a 'police riot,' a harbinger of Ferguson 2014.