Tell your officers to not get involved without telling your officers to not get involved.Your update from CPD on the ground:
Yesterday’s perimeter breach was a probing trial run for heavier action later on in the week, presumably Thursday after all the big names are back in DC and police response will be tempered down without as much heavy-handedness. Intel guys and counterinsurgency dudes with plenty of GWOT time said they saw the exact same tactics during the summer of love and DurkaDurkaStan over the last 20 years. They said those who broke through were WAY too compliant and easily wrangled for it to be an actual penetration for the sake of an “attack.” Spotters and observers were located in the crowd and on the outskirts, with some Baofeng radios being seen.
The almost 300 cops who arrived there to assist CPD are sleeping at the Academy on cots. That building is fifty years old and the AC only works sporadically.
The National Guard (between 60 and 120 personnel) is deployed out of 35th Street, but are racking out on the 3rd floor (the bedbug floor) at HQ because the air conditioning at the Armory went out and internal temperatures soared to about 100 degrees, so they've been camping there ever since.
There was food being delivered from military contractors and the Guard, being military types, offered to share with the civilians working at HQ. The civilians started walking out with entire trays of food, and the guardsmen had to post security in the media room to restrict access to their own food.
And apparently Internal Affairs has set up more than half a dozen complaint booths around the UC where protesters can come directly to the booth to file complaints against officers who look at them sternly without having to be bothered to go down to the precinct to do so:
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