>The second example capped off a paragraph about curfew measures to prevent daytime protests from being overtaken by nighttime looting. Therefore it could be an

>The second example capped off a paragraph about curfew measures to prevent daytime protests from being overtaken by nighttime looting. Therefore it could be an empirical statement about tragedies that tend to and have followed looting and is using that to justify his preventive measures. If he meant it normatively and wanted to shoot people he probably wouldn’t have pushed preventative measures. The second example was a blatantly racist dog whistle[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_shooting_starts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_s...