Failure of Leadership

Anyone who could not anticipate that urban protests would spiral into looting was willfully blind. The dereliction of duty of Tennessee's Governor Bill Lee and Nashville Mayor John Cooper should astound. Why was the National Guard not deployed preemptively in Tennessee's capital city? These politicians who failed to protect businesses and even government buildings are nearly as responsible as the rioters for the damage that was incurred as any leader with a grain of sense would have deployed sufficient force that lawbreakers dare not act up and that show of force would have staved off most, if not all, of the damage.