This week Americas watched as looters cleared out stores in Philadelphia while dozens of police officers were targeted and assaulted by mob violence. A citywide curfew in Philadelphia was put in effect as the governor called in the Pennsylvania National Guard. The governor’s action was too little too late as entire sections of the city have been cleaned out by looters. Law enforcement was ordered to stand down and the police were forced to retreat as anarchy spread block by block. Philadelphia’s Democratic mayor has abdicated control of whole swaths of his city to rioters.
The unrest in our cities is unprecedented. Americans hear calls from advocates and elected officials to “defund and dismantle the police.” Law-abiding citizens are rightly alarmed over the safety of their families and businesses. Americans have witnessed a steady scene of riots in cities across the nation — a war-like spectacle in Minneapolis, an anarchy-zone in Seattle, and a months-long uprising in Portland forcing that city’s Democratic Mayor to literally flee his own home.
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