This would have helped back in the '92 riots maybe, sorry to say. A mile-wide area in LA was highly affected (where I'm living now, actually) and there was a billion dollars in damage in 90s money. Businesses (specifically Korean) never recovered. So they're protecting a mile wide area this time with potential...Blackhawk helicopters?
On the one hand, this sucks; ICE--get out. On the other, I guess they just don't want to repeat history:
'92: The turmoil started 12 miles south on Normandie and Florence and moved up north to Koreatown which was about a mile around. Livelihoods went down the drain as buildings got torched and burned. LAPD wouldn't lift a finger. The Korean community formed armed militias to protect their own businesses who have come to colloquially be known as Rooftop Koreans by the mainstream.
Now: Targeting of the city of Paramount (12 miles south of the center of LA). Curfew and National Guard enforced on the epicenter of protests around the federal detention center in a mile-wide perimeter.
I see it.
