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Originally posted by Mule
Someone where? The NOPD kind of had their hands full. This required federal help and federal help was non-existant.
"It's not like N.O. is populated w/ Harvard professors."
What kind of arrogant ***** is that? So this is like it is because the city's residents are not smart, like you left coasters? Why didn't you all prepare for the riots? All that was over a verdict, no flood, no 130 mph winds. You mean with all that superior intellect you couldn't avert all that death & destruction? I guess LA isn't populated with Harvard professors either huh?
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Touche. Mule, I'll buy you a beer someday and we can prolly solve all the world's problems between us.
The L.A. riots were predicted (to some extent) and the police were in place to crush it. For reasons never particularly well-explained, LAPD was asked to pull back and take no action while the riot grew, got publicized on TV and then broke out of the ghetto.
What never gets any press is what happened on the west side of L.A. where I was eating lunch. When the TV coverage got scary, all those nice well-to-do folks in their Bimmers and Jags started cutting in and out of traffic, running lights, and generally demonstrating no respect for law and order -- running, even though they were 25 miles from the riot activity.
Put humans in a similar stressful situation and they pretty much act the same. Harvard degree or not.