> I was able to spectate active looting in my own city's downtown when the protests first came to us via various livestreaming instagrammers and while it was mo

> I was able to spectate active looting in my own city's downtown when the protests first came to us via various livestreaming instagrammers and while it was mostly a curiosity for me I imagine it would have been useful to a dispatcher who had to decide where to send officers We all watched the same thing in our cities. And we watched as the police chose to launch projectiles into crowds of protestors instead of doing anything about the smashing and looting. On the first night of large protests (May 29), I found myself in my city of Portland, OR, on SW 3rd and Yamhill. On one side of me (to the East), where a small group of matching black-clad people had gone, were the unambiguous sounds of windows being smashed and building alarms going off. In other directions, especially South and West, there were huge groups of protestors, simply occupying the area. The police engaged, without a single exception that came to my awareness, in the latter group, breaking them up into smaller and smaller contingents as the night went on, while doing nothing about the much smaller group going around smashing. I described my experience in detail the following morning.[0] The same story has emerged from streamed video throughout the USA. So I don't think there's any evidence at this time that the police view stopping rioting or "active looting" as a goal. 0: https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/gtj1zm/what_i_saw_last_night/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/gtj1zm/what_i_saw...