ThunderHorse
Verified Military
I just want to issue the correction here y'all. Clinton did not send Active Duty troops into Los Angeles.Was he upset when Clinton moved Marines into LA during those riots?
Bush Senior was president at the time. If anything we're significantly behind the timeline of the Rodney King riots and troops should have been deployed in the middle of last week. We're going on almost two weeks of riots in certain places. 4,000 active duty personnel and 9,000 guard personnel were deployed to Los Angeles on the third day of Riots.
1992 Los Angeles riots - Wikipedia
However, in 1993 Clinton did deploy active duty troops to Waco as part of the siege force on the Branch Davidian compound. There was a Bradley company involved in the assault, I'd have to look, but I do believe that is the ONLY time crew serves were used against Americans in the last 50 years.
Somehow the insurrection act was not invoked, not sure what authority active duty troops were there.
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