No emergency is as black and white as when the National Guard gets deployed.
That’s why many social media users complaining after nine motorcycle gang members were killed during a shootout in Texas — but no one deployed the troops like they did in Baltimore or Ferguson, Mo.
“They’ve recovered at least 100 weapons,” Deray McKesson, a high-profile activist wrote on Twitter. “The (National) Guard would be mobilized now if, black.”
With photos showing detained members of the criminal motorcycle gangs plugging away at their phones as police calmly stand guard, activists are quick to point out the disparity of the situation.
NINE BIKERS DEAD, 18 INJURED AS RIVAL MOTORCYCLE GANGS BATTLE OUTSIDE TEXAS ‘TWIN PEAKS’ RESTAURANT
Nine people were killed in the brawl that spilled out of a Twin Peaks Restaurant bathroom and then into the parking lot where police officers returned fire after receiving a tip that a fight was imminent.
In the aftermath of Sunday’s killings, there’s no sign of tear gas or baton-wielding riot cops tearing through the streets, like what happened after Michael Brown and Freddie Gray were slain at the hands of police officers.
WACO SHOOTOUT AMONG WORST IN MOTORCYCLE GANG VIOLENCE HISTORY
“When are we going to start asking how many of the (people) in the Waco slaughter grew up in single-parent homes? Oh, that’s right,” Blow wrote.
Late night curfews were ordered for residents in both Ferguson and Baltimore at the peak of anti-police brutality demonstrations to curb the damage to building, cars and injuries to riot cops by tossed objects.
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