Is there any basis to this? Any data about violence at protests to back it up? It reads like it's a creation of someone's imagination about what the 'other' sid

Is there any basis to this? Any data about violence at protests to back it up? It reads like it's a creation of someone's imagination about what the 'other' side must be like (not the commenter's imagination, but whomever they read) - people so dehumanized to the person imagining it that they lose sight of the fact that they are people, human beings, not objects of political opposition in someone's drama. In particular, this sounds very unlikely: > if someone tries looting or setting things on fire or attacking people at a right-leaning demonstration in the US, they will probably be shot. When has that happened? I'm pretty doubtful of anything that paints the 'other' side as one big stereotype. Also, my personal experience and observations of such things don't match these claims.