demonstrations. You send regular police units to stand by in case violence breaks out. People expect that.

Deliberately sending in a federalized national guard and Marines is a deliberate provocation given that the vast majority of the protests were non-violent.

Obviously, there was some violence, but using only regular police and state national guard troops was appropriate and would have been unlikely to trigger more than words and yelling by protestors.

dt made up the whole rampant violence nonsense in an attempt to CAUSE violent reactions and then he'd justify his actions and maybe even declare martial law in LA, and anywhere else people protested.