Why hasn't Missouri's governor Nixon sent in a contingent of National Guard troops?
First of all, I think the local and aggregated police forces are really effing things up, over-reactive, aggravating things, etc (add more, it's not hyperbole).
But some of the protesters have looted, but with little true violence.
Missouri governor Nixon should tell the local/county/etc police to go home and let the National Guard calm things down. They can do good in some social unrest:
Think integration (Alabama and Arkansas). Please don't think Kent State.
Governor Nixon could even send in unarmed Missouri National Guard forces, just as he would for a natural disaster.