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10. Highlights the fact that NG are NOT police

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Nov 28, 2025, 03:47 PM

16 hrs ago

Using the NG as a police force is like using a hammer when a screwdriver is called for.

They have had no civilian police training and don’t have the developed instincts that would help to spot trouble and react appropriately.

Would police training have helped in this situation? Kind of doubt it. Because it looks like this guy was basically hunting National Guard.

We still don’t know why but this seems to have been a targeted attack.

One thing is certain— if they had not been wandering the streets of DC this young women and the surviving Young man would never have been shot.

The blame is all on Trump.

He is using the national guard because he is their Commander-In-Chief. But they are a tool inappropriate to the mission.

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D.C. police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack [View all] mahatmakanejeeves 18 hrs ago OP

How about we send the Guard home and put DC police on the street where warranted but without the xtra duties hlthe2b 18 hrs ago #1

💡 underpants 18 hrs ago #7

So the police will support the Guards who are there to support the police JoseBalow 18 hrs ago #2

Protecting the protectors of the protected Bayard 16 hrs ago #9

A U.S. District court ruled Trump's deployment of the National Guard to assist with local crime control was unlawful. sop 18 hrs ago #3

Y'all afraid of getting shot, by guns? Well, duh, yer in 'merica. It happens, more than 300 times per day twodogsbarking 18 hrs ago #4

IMO, the death of the 20yo NG member is squarely on Donald Trump. There is absolutely no reason for her deployment. walkingman 18 hrs ago #5

So now we're spending $$$ to guard the national guard? WTF!? NotHardly 18 hrs ago #6

Yeah like they are on parade. underpants 18 hrs ago #8

Highlights the fact that NG are NOT police Picaro 16 hrs ago #10

This makes so much sense. Right. Biophilic 16 hrs ago #11

And if he deploys more national guards FPGramma 15 hrs ago #12

So who's going to pick up trash on the Mall? Gimpyknee 11 hrs ago #13