Residents carried signs, inscribed with phrases like Was Murder Necessary? and How Much Training Have Our Officers Had? and Will Our Son Be Next? One resident who spoke to the UPI writer described the town police as Kinloch cowboys and village police, and said that they wanted the St. Louis county police to protect the area. Local officials stepped up their reaction. Almost a hundred county and town police were ordered to man Kinlochs streets and were equipped, according to UPI, with machine guns and police dogs. Fifty people were rounded up and questioned about the violence that had unfolded following Dortchs death. Missouri Gov. John Dalton assured folks that hed do whatever necessary to preserve the peace. He consulted with the Missouri highway patrol, and debated whether to send in the National Guard. npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/08/21/341417443/an-officer-shot-a-black-teen-and-st-louis-rioted-in-1962
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