> You say that but since the 90s there has been a concerted effort to not let law enforcement escalate to that point (at least in group situations like this).

> You say that but since the 90s there has been a concerted effort to not let law enforcement escalate to that point (at least in group situations like this). You say this as if the inaugural protesters weren't rounded up, detained for illegal lengths of time, and subject to spurious lawsuits and fines that were enormously damaging to even passerbys. > but in an ongoing clash like this the politicians would hold the cops to a reasonable ROE. You say this like there aren't still ongoing lawsuits of brutality cases from Ferguson or that BLM isn't still organizing widespread civil rights demonstrations that draw hundreds to thousands and then being chased off by cops with tear gas, truncheons, and "non-lethal" bullets.