Jack of Harts

The mayors of the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Metroplex welcomed the early protestors that heralded the Second Great Depression. They ordered the police to stand down and let the peaceful protesters be, and when the protests became riots and more, they mayors ordered the police to stay back and let the people vent their righteous feelings. Looters destroyed vehicles on the streets, broke into businesses, and invaded homes, taking anything of value they could find. Some neighborhoods they declared “Police Free” zones where no one could be forced to work against their will. Those zones quickly became hotbeds of gang and drug cartel activity, and thefts, rapes, and murders ran rampant. Those citizens who managed to drive the looters off with weapons soon had their weapons confiscated by the police at mayoral orders. The looters always came back the next night, neighborhoods burned, and citizens died. The flashpoint for Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base came when one of their Marines killed an entire gang caught in the act of looting a family home. The mayor of Dallas ordered his arrest for murdering peaceful protestors, and came prepared with a laundry list of other charges to hang on the man.