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Santa Barbara Law Enforcement: Two Ways to Handle a Riot

Donald Trump is trying to blow up California. Can it be stopped?

Santa Barbara Law Enforcement: Two Ways to Handle a Riot

BLOWING UP: Watching Donald Trump’s invasion of Los Angeles unfold, I am reminded of an early-morning raid Ventura law enforcement agencies launched on my next-door neighbor many years ago. My neighbor was a big biker guy, and it turns out that he was a suspected meth dealer. There was an overwhelming show of force in the predawn hours.

From my neighbor’s perspective, a whole bunch of strange people invaded his house, and they had guns.

So, too, it turns out, did he.