@fu In majority-Black neighborhoods, if most people have complained to the police, it means they've tried every person-to-person method to resolve things and the other person / group is just set on doing whatever they aren't forced to stop doing.

Likewise in majority-Hispanic neighborhoods. Even when I was in school (in such a mostly Hispanic neighborhood), police could be a little *indelicate* when dealing with people of non-Euro ancestry.

I knew a guy who was high on pot and drove his parents' car into a parked car. The local police talked to him, talked to the occupants of the other vehice, and talked to the other witness (me), then handcuffed him, took out their sticks and started beating him.

A woman (Euro ancestry) loudly asked why they were beating someone who was handcuffed and not resisting. At that point, they put their hands on their guns and ordered everyone who wasn't a witness to go home. But they did stop beating Charlie ... at least in front of us.

So, yeah. If the neighbors collectively had been asking for police intervention, it meant that MOVE was set that no one would tell them what to do.

And this is another reason why all-voluntary doesn't work in real life. As soon as someone decides they're not cooperating unless there's a credible threat of overwhelming force, their neighbors have a problem.

Having said all this, dropping a bomb on the building was so far outside of acceptable standards that the involved decision-makers should have gone to prison.