Tom Cotton

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Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton

The next year, 13,000 troops were called to protect Washington, D.C. from riots that erupted after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. The city didn’t recover for decades, but federal troops staunched the bleeding. https://t.co/jw2L27DNmu — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 2, 2020

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In 1967, President Johnson ordered the 82nd and 101st Airborne to stop deadly race riots in Detroit. LBJ: “We will not tolerate lawlessness... This Nation will do whatever it is necessary to do to suppress and to punish those who engage in it.” https://t.co/ICyQ7JfbmH — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 2, 2020

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In 1992, President George H.W. Bush ordered the Army’s 7th Infantry and 1,500 Marines to quell the Rodney King riots burning down LA. Bush 41 knew that King had been unjustly treated—“what I saw made me sick”—but he knew deadly riots would only multiply the victims. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 2, 2020