clearly, the sentiment here is that police need to protect the righteous and beat up the Bad guys.
How they tell that in a crowd of dunderhrads is beyond me.
Referring again to our many protests honoring Michael Brown, Gentle Giant and now Saint, cops suggested that protestors go home after dark because thats when things heated up, bad nicks showed up. Fights, gunshots, beatings ensued, buildings burned. But not by the police and national guard.
In the crowds here, supposedly with everyone holding more or less the same values, shit went down and people hurt other people. Sometimes it is smart to just stand back and observe the goons marchng their little marches, waving their little flags, and spewing their little chants of hatred. Fighting over turf isstupid.