One could interpret those quotes as coming from someone who was disappointed they didn't get to bust heads.
She didn't seem to ve objecting to the guard being put there. Vit was more about the inability to do something about all that "crime".

Words and warnings and a "presence" don't mean much to people who are not moved by them.

"Busting heads" is an option, especially when the situations escalate, but I can't walk away with a clean impression that she wanted to do that.

As you say, ambiguous, but if what they boyfriend is sharing is true, I can see how she'd come to the conclusion that her presence was "pointless."

If the mission was "pointless" because they couldn't do anything, I see the punitive option as an obvious desire.
The proclivity I'm ascribing to her doesn't she was a "bad guy" who deserves to be shot, but I can't ignore what I see as the clear solution to her complaint.

She could be saying "whatever you want to call the police in for, let us do it, we're already here."

We just don't know if she was saying "let me bust some heads," and we never will.

I lived in Colorado Springs for 9 months. The cops there are ABSOLUTELY brown shirts. There's just an aura coming off of them that's unmistakable, like when you drive down a road after someone's hit a skunk.

The members of the Sheriff's department HERE take care of business, but there's not a toxic male "I HAVE A GUN" feeling coming from them.

It's like anything else in life, like people who get married but should never have kids, because they're not equipped to raise them.

Some people should not be cops, but then again, I look at Colorado Springs and see the consistency of the mindset and have to wonder if the powers that be are intentionally hiring officers who get off on intimidating people.

Seems she was MAGAt through and through, and was "disappointed and discouraged" because she wasn't authorized to crack some skulls of the American citizens she swore to protect.

Putting on a uniform doesn't make you a hero. As a retired Navy member, let me state, unequivocally, that there were a shit-ton of Shipmates I served with that I would NEVER want patrolling the streets of America.

First of all, Trump's doing this because John Roberts told him he's King of America, and above all laws. Anything that smacks of "illegal" or "unethical" is like CATNIP to Trump. The impulsive toddler is powerless to resist.

And I don't think I've ever met a Democrat who was "against law and order."

But that's not what this is about at all. A Military presence on U.S. streets without a situation that clearly warrants it is not "law and order," it's authoritarianism.

So Democrats view it as that, and Trump spins it as Democrats being in favor of lawlessness. He knows it's a lie but it supports his narrative, so he doesn't care. He just keeps repeating it and the MAGAts, being the trained seals that they are, keep repeating it for him.

...the National Guard is being sent in by Trump as an intimidating show of force, and some of the locals are neither intimidated nor impressed by their presence.

And if their orders are to "call the cops," and that is their only function (beyond the aforementioned optics), it does sound "pointless."

I have no idea what she wanted to do. One option is to not be there if she's not making a difference. I don't know if it implies that she wanted to take as active of a hand as police and make arrests, etc.

And, this is all coming from the ex boyfriend, so it's his interpretation.

Are the criminals Carr's talking about the people of D.C., the ones protesting and yelling at the NG to leave their city? Sounds like they were looking to crack some heads and were frustrated.

There should be many opportunities to “do something” there. The occupation of the US cities was never more than an inept show of force to make a doddering old man appear strong to his idiot followers. The 65% of the US population that hates him was not fooled.

In this country, people don’t understand where crime occurs. They think, “oh, crime happens downtown.” Crime happens where people live. In cities all across the country, the downtown areas are mostly safe except for a couple small spots. The murders and violence generally happen in neighborhoods, not in down towns. In my city, the violence is in regular neighborhoods where the houses are 1950s and a little run down, but not so much so that you’d think it was terrible there.

Downtown Detroit and Chicago are safe, just as safe as most downtowns of small mid western cities. It’s when you get into certain neighborhoods that it’s unsafe. So deploying troops in the business and entertainment districts is pointless. What are they going to stop? After bar scuffles? Car break ins?

weren't daring to go into areas controlled by the Don Corleone type folks.

Bottom line is that crime has been an issue in America since its founding. It ebbs and flows in an almost identical wave with the economy.

I guess you could eliminate all crime. There is very little crime in Singapore, but they'll beat you ass with a cane if you drop a gum wrapper on the street.

Of course, the real crime that harms and murders millions, occurs in the halls of Congress, the White House, on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms.

Eloon Musk, Jeff Bozos and Fuckerberg have killed millions around the world...they just hide the blood better than your average gunman.

as crime prevention, but the subtext has always been to provoke violence so her overlord con man manipulator can declare more war on US citizens.

It’s a shame she paid the ultimate price for this misuse of personnel.