You can if they are National Guard called out by the governor.
Also reminds me of that movie Sicario.
Nonsense. As far back as 1970 the infantry and armed cavalry of the Ohio National Guard fixed bayonettes to the M1 semi-automatic rifles and shot 13 unarmed students at Kent State university - killing four.
You will note that students were indicted for the riot (Kent 25) but NONE of the soldiers or chain of command.
And the USG has been defending this action as recently as 2012.
FWIW: I did politely ask what the legal response to looting in US law is, but got down-voted, sans answer, by the woke.
I bet few us live in Ireland, but most would agree that their recent changes to remove blasphemy laws is a good idea, no?
If you REALLY don't want the military shooting looters, then at least take the effort to get the laws changed. You can multi-task. Phone AOC.
2. Once you are at secret courts, all bets are off.
Sad really.
As a former military member, you need to go refresh yourself on how and when posse comitatus can be suspended, and to whom it does and does not apply.
Well, that's fucking illegal as shit. You can't use military to perform law enforcement actions, and a "show of force" is clearly a threat to use the force, which would be a law enforcement action, since a show of force is technically a responsive security measure. The military is only supposed to support law enforcement with things like medical care or what have you, but this falls clearly on the side of law enforcement.
Edit: when I was in the Navy, we performed counter drug operations where the Coast Guard would legally "take over" the ship's command structure, temporarily, so we could legally perform law enforcement actions against drug boats thousands of miles from the USA. When we spotted the drug runners (by helo or intelligence), the Coasties would immediately become in legal command of the ship because any warnings over the radio (where we told them to stop or we'd shoot their engines) or shots to do so would be considered a law enforcement action since it was a "threat of force". We (the officers) were told if we did anything over the radio or even chased the boats before the Coastie Commanding Officer took over, we'd get court-martialed for some sort of violation of the US Constitution, no shit.