LAPD Chief on Needing the National Guard: ‘Looking at the Violence Tonight, I Think We’ve Got to Make a Reassessment’’

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McDONNELL: "Do we need them? Well, looking at it tonight, you know, this thing has gotten out of control. What they’re — I think before I could answer that, I’d have to know more about what their capabilities are, what their role is intended to be, to be able to make that determination. But we have great cops in southern California here that work together all the time. So we have tremendous capability here to say that we would go to that right away. I’d say we’re not -- we wouldn’t have been there yet. Looking at the violence tonight, I think we've got to make a reassessment."