Tarrlok's task force

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- There's a madman running around our beloved city threatening to tear it apart. We need to create a task force whose sole mission is to find Amon and bring him to justice.

Tarrlok's task force was a unit created by Councilman Tarrlok under the approval of the United Republic Council with the objective of bringing Amon and his followers to justice. Members of the team included several skilled waterbenders and earthbenders; Avatar Korra was initially a member of the task force, but later resigned after disagreeing with Tarrlok's methods.

History
The task force was conceived by Tarrlok in response to an Equalist event called "The Revelation", where Amon's ability to remove people's bending was revealed to a public audience, in which Avatar Korra was a spectator. The task force's creation was opposed by Tenzin, fearing that a move this aggressive would only further the division between benders and non-benders. However, the proposal was supported by the remaining Council members, thus proclaiming Amon public enemy number one in Republic City.

Tarrlok then made several attempts to persuade Korra to join the task force by sending a range of extravagant gifts to her, from a gift basket to a luxurious Satomobile. She was ultimately pressured into becoming a member when Tarrlok forced her into a public setting during a gala he had thrown in her honor, where the press asked her accusing questions about her apparent inaction against the Anti-bending Revolution.



In City Hall, Tarrlok explained to the task force that their first mission was to raid an underground chi blocker training facility located in a Dragon Flats borough bookstore cellar. Led by the Councilman, the group first flooded the camp and froze four Equalists, followed by earthbending attacks that broke through the wall, allowing the benders to storm in and quickly subdue the majority of the other chi blockers. One chi blocker threw a smoke grenade, but Korra intercepted and froze it, trapping the gas inside. She then pursued the last two fleeing chi blockers and tripped on a wire just as an Equalist jumped down from above. She stopped him by kicking a rock into his chest, but when another one was about to ensnare her, Tarrlok froze him against the wall just in time. The flawless raid made the front page of the newspaper as shown when the task force arrested them in the presence of journalists.



After Korra challenged Amon to a duel on Aang Memorial Island, Tarrlok claimed to have prepared a fleet of police airships that would swoop down if something went wrong; however, these never came despite Korra's capture.

Following these events, Korra took a leave of absence from the task force to prepare for the upcoming Pro-bending Tournament with her team, the Fire Ferrets.

After the successful Equalist attack on the Pro-bending Arena, Tarrlok called a press conference, during which he placed blame for the arena's destruction on Lin Beifong. Throughout this speech, Tarrlok's task force was seen behind him, acting as his personal bodyguard.



After Lin Beifong resigned as Chief of Police, her replacement, Saikhan, stated that he would report to Councilman Tarrlok in all matters concerning the Equalists and agreed to lend any of the police force's available resources to Tarrlok and his task force; as a result, the Councilman's influence in the police force increased greatly. With the police on his side, the Chairman began to implement his idea of a "safe" Republic City. Later on, the task force aided Tarrlok when he commanded the police to mass-arrest innocent non-benders of the Dragon Flats borough. During this event, task force members also arrested the opposing members of Team Avatar.

Following Tarrlok's capture and the loss of his bending, the task force still remained active. After Amon secured Republic City for the Equalists, a member of the task force was seen having his bending taken away by Amon.

Trivia

 * The task force's controversial tactics against the innocent non-benders of the Dragon Flats borough can be compared to how the Pinkertons, a secret police force that could be hired by businesses and regular police forces, broke up a labor strike in Homestead during the 1890s. The strikers were fired upon by the Pinkerton s, causing a full scale riot. The workers were protesting, which was their right to do, and were attacked unjustly, just like the non-benders who wanted their rights to be uninhibited. Injustice prevailed as well.