Pretty much the same thing is true of Seattle. I think that police forces everywhere are riddled with people who let their racial and other biases influence how they treat members of the public. All too often, it results in police misconduct, sometimes even murder. It is also true that there have been some roving bands of leftist hooligans in both Seattle and Portland that have trashed neighborhoods and engaged in violence towards police. There have been some serious cases of looting. The local governments don't want federal help, primarily because the kind of help they are offered isn't cooperation, but behavior that provokes civil disorder. It is bad enough when the local police lack training and discipline, but Trump's goon squads are not there to deescalate the violence. They are there to justify his demagoguery. That can't be achieved if BLM protests remain nonviolent.
