Wonder how much longer you would wait after the loss of life, injuries, and damage to buildings and business to accept assistance from the military. How would you restore law and order? Some would argue they waited too long. With the latest L.A. riots one could also argue that they were called in prematurely. Hard to tell how much damage would have occurred if they weren't called in.
Bazinga: I know you've been here longer than me, but more recently active than you used to be (?) And I don't mean this to sound harsh. But your response shows the conditioning to 'bothsides-ism' that big media is SO fond of. We're all susceptible to it (except maybe for Florduh... LOL, and good on him).
The LEO community (and I'll include the domestic peacekeeping arm of the military / NG here) is concerned with one thing -- preserving property rights. They give fuck all about the citizenry, as long as the buildings are standing at the end of the day. This has been the case since, well, the country was founded.
In the US, when the duly elected governor requests their NG component to be federalized... they DON'T get control of it back, until the CiC decides to. The governors know this, and that's why you see even the red states that could use them right now (ahem... Texas)
refuse to request this from the current CiC. And then there's the "let's get the Feds out of FEMA" business. And everything else the current regime is doing to deconstruct the administrative state -- which is there *mainly* to solve problems too big for individual states.
A previous example was Katrina. Dim Son wanted the governor to request federalization -- and the locals steadfastly refused, to their credit. The one thing they did right was putting Gen. Russell Honore in charge of the recovery. Being a POC himself, he was the 'right place / right time' guy for that job. And he made his bones with that job, which is OK, as long as the results of his previous efforts were considered optimal.
Thus, you may see people saying "call the Guard". But it won't be the people who'd have to yield control of them. Not to THIS clown.