We drained Food Giant for the public safety people. The mayor commandeered the store.
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They commandeered our ambulances and stole them for four days. It cost us over 90,000 in billing to the government, and they probably hurt some people because they didn't respond to our orders to come back. They decided to do their own thing.
We had gunfire up and down here. We had looters over here. We drove in with a bus. We had people jumping in the windows stealing stuff. We had one gasoline truck that was commandeered by the feds when it was coming in the other day. But from our perspective, the easiest thing for us was to get everything up and rolling.
By early evening, a sprawling crowd assembled to hear Palau preach before the stage was commandeered by a hip-hop gospel ensemble and a rock group playing Christian music. We're ecstatic about the turnout, ... This is what a festival is like.
The chief's decision to seal the bridge prompted accusations of racial prejudice, ... But Lawson explains that initially Gretna police commandeered buses and used them to ferry more than 5,000 evacuees to a rescue site. But more and more kept coming, and after a day of this shuttling, he says, his small police force became overwhelmed.
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.