The claim: The National Guard is almost exclusively called against Black citizens Our rating: False
The Insurrection Act was last used by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, when the acquittal of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King sparked the Los Angeles riots.The National Guard has been activated at least 16 times at the federal level, according Dr. Richard Clark, historian for the National Guard Bureau.
The 1967 riots in Detroit and the 1992 Los Angeles riots are the two riots"over police violence" when the Guard was called in. Known as"Bloody Sunday," peaceful protesters were tear-gassed and beaten while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest voting discrimination,However, deployments to"'contain' Black 'rioters'" started with the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles and continued in 1968 after MLK's assassination, Ross said.
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