The first stages of the National Guard effort are apparently being supported by the Police Department. Currently, officers are asking for identification, and telling everyone to return to, and stay in, their homes.
A real live National Guardsman (Guardperson?) has not actually been sighted yet by my sources in AP.
More soon…
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