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However, the real question is why are armed military troops being sent to American cities for policing duty (something they were never trained for) when they were never requested by the local police, the city mayor, or the state governor?

Because the locals aren't doing their jobs. I mean, if there was a problem at all in a place like Portland.

BTW, Nat Guardsmen *are* in fact trained in crowd control:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-natio...

Between 1965 and 1971, the Army National Guard was deployed 260 times to maintain order during urban and anti-war civil disturbances such as those following the death of Martin Luther King Jr.

The outcry over civilian deaths in Detroit, Newark, Kent State and elsewhere resulted in changes to the National Guard.

Guardsmen were given more protective equipment and trained in nonlethal methods of crowd control.

All these locals have to do is...their freaking jobs and protect the federal property. That's it.

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