This chaotic spectacle was a rare sight.
Soon, TV reporters in helicopters were broadcasting these scenes across the United States. In no time at all, the phones of Los Angeles's major government agencies were ringing off the hook.
The scale was too massive.
Online and offline across the country, information about the situation was being frantically passed around, obliterating any concern for what any celebrity might be doing or any scandal they were involved in.
Everyone's attention was now focused on Los Angeles, the city where countless American dreams had been realized.
And in Los Angeles itself, the stationed troops had already been deployed. Militias from various cities were also called up, flooding into the downtown area to impose armed suppression. Besides the TV stations' helicopters, every helicopter the government could muster took to the skies. They broadcast messages using forcibly commandeered broadcasting equipment, appealing for public calm.
