Puerto Rico's streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no insignia or nametags

[jfuller]

@doctorow

Though Puerto Rican law prohibits ownership and bearing of most long-guns and especially semiautomatic weapons, the streets of the stricken US colony now throng with mercenaries in tactical gear bearing such arms, their faces masked. They wear no insignia or nametags and won’t say who they work for, apart from vague statements in broken Spanish: “We work with the government. It’s a humanitarian mission, we’re helping Puerto Rico.”

Welcome to the continental US the day after we have some sort of wall-to-wall catastrophe.