This is headed to a classic feedback loop. The more the media ignores/hides it, the madder the ‘protesters’ will get since their massively important ‘point’ isn’t being spread. This will lead to increasing violence to force the issue.
Regular people will be shocked when something they had heard little about suddenly explodes perhaps literally, in their own area and react accordingly.
By standing by, on orders or not, the security forces are nothing but a visible encouragement to more violence because the ‘protestors’ have the correct impression that they are immune from the consequence of their actions. And they are increasingly placing themselves in the role of human sacrifice.
So ultimately this all comes down to total incompetence, which is believable, or intentional firestarting, which is also believable. Considering Cloward Piven called for exactly this type of thing, and the powers that be seem hellbent on escalating the problems in America, I know which one I’d pick.
STL police scanner is up now...
Also monitoring Cleveland PD dispatch.
I’ll see if I can get the tactical traffic again like last night; hopefully my feed works again.