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recourse but to go out and take what they need. If we zoom in, you can see several of the people in the group are carrying various types of makeshift demolition instruments. They are bashing cars, windows, trash cans and anything that gets in their way. We see flashing lights from police vehicles right now coming together two blocks in front of where the mob is. They are setting up a barricade with police cars to try to head them off. The officers are forming up into a phalanx with tear gas guns."
    The camera focuses on the line of police. The mob continues in their direction undeterred. The police begin firing tear gas. The mob covers their face and runs to the barricade. They soon reach the barricade and begin beating the police officers. Several officers begin firing their side arms simultaneously with the armed individuals in the crowd. The unarmed members of the mob fall back while the armed elements of the mob continue to engage the police in a firefight. The camera shows several police and rioters getting shot before they cut away from the horror.
    The coverage goes back to the CNC studios with Ed Nolan "Folks we just saw some very horrific sights of people being shot. We are going to continue to get footage of the events occurring right now in Detroit. We’re going to edit through that footage so not to disturb our sensitive viewers and we will get it right back to you. We are also getting reports of smaller riots, fires and looting of large grocery chains from cities all over America tonight, but nothing compared to what we just saw in Detroit."
    Karen looked up from the television. "Can you believe they just showed that on TV?"
    "Everybody is watching it." Matt said. "They know they’re going to get viewers glued to the television now."
    Shots rang out from a few streets over from the Bair's house.
    "Was that gunfire?" Karen asked.
    "Sounded like it" Matt said. "I am going to listen in on the scanner." He didn't have an actual police scanner, but he did have the city police scanner bookmarked on his internet browser through Broadcastify.com. One quick click and he could monitor whatever went over the regular channels. A lot of the very bad stuff went to the police tactical channels, but in the event of widespread civil unrest, the tactical channels would be overrun with traffic. They would have to use the regular channel. He had also downloaded the Scanner Radio app to his phone. It helped to know the streets that were being blocked off in manhunts. The Scanner Radio app also used Broadcastify.com to stream the communications from the police radio frequency.
    From what Matt could pick up, people were looting the Winn Dixie a few blocks away from the house. Evidently they had overrun the two patrol cars. SWAT was being called in with orders to shoot on sight. One of the officers parked at the store had been injured, so the rubber bullet courtesy had been suspended for this incident. Matt didn't get everything that came over the scanner. He was starting to recognize the 10 codes the police used, but he still had to refer to his cheat sheet which caused him to miss a lot of information while looking up the translation of the 10 codes.
    The phone rang. It was Jack. "Hey Matt, it’s chaos in here. I had to take a number and have been waiting almost an hour. They just called my number. They have a Glock .40 caliber and a Sig Sauer 9mm left. Those are the only two semi-automatic pistols they have. Everything else is revolvers. Which one should I get?"
    "Do they have ammo for the .40?" Matt inquired.
    "I don't think they have any ammo for anything. The shelves were pretty low when I got here, but they look like they have been completely cleaned out now." Jack replied.
    Matt said "Then get the Sig. I will spot you a box of 9mm ammo. I can't help you with .40 cal ammo and you may not find any for a while. A few years ago when we had the gun ban scare following the school shooting, there was no ammo for about six months.