[G Larry]

There are at least 2 cops on every block of the 16th St. mall.

I’d like to know what they were doing as this situation escalated?

Sitting on their ass calling for back-up?

[MrB]

This is something everyone keeps in mind -

it is SO easy to overwhelm the resources that keep order,
and once the mob sees that someone did X and got away with it,
it’s bar the door, because they lose all self-restraint.