Who played the race card? Your comment reveals your own racial prejudices. Tolerating criminal behavior, regardless of its ethnic origin, is the reason that two posters on this thread ride their bikes in an unsafe environment in their home towns. And when local and state law enforcement authorities have so obviously failed to maintain law and order, bringing in the National Guard to restore civil order is exactly what we should be doing. That is what they were created for, not to shed their blood in a foreign land so that we can continue to have cheap oil.