Once we get the 3,000 National Guardsmen here, we're locking this place down, ... It's really difficult because my opinion of the looting is it started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much. Then it escalated to this kind of mass chaos where people are taking electronic stuff and all that.
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I've gone from anger to despair to seeing us turn the corner, ... It's going to be awful and it's going to wake the nation up again.
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