Now for a serious note - if police / state police & national guard units cannot control a bunch of bussed in folks ....why would anyone count on them to save their lives or their families? Carry and train; as you can see here yet again, just how ineffective the Gov. really is.
Police don't want to
control riots. They want to be
seen at the scene of riots, looking tough. If there's no riot, then they threw away an opportunity for some free self-justification (this being the real job of all bureaucrats the world over).
The Oakland PD probably have a handbook on this, somewhere.
The truth is, police don't give a crap about private property, and they only care about "law and order" to the degree it puts dollars in their pockets. Heck, look at the police response to MOVE in Philly back in '85: they bombed an
entire block of houses after being prompted by, initially, some noise complaints. How's that for prompt service in defense of private property?
"I bet there won't be any noise complaints on
that block for a while!"