Welcome to FOURTH GENERATION warfare.
THEM vs. US—on the mall and everywhere.
The “authorities” are only peripherally involved, if at all. They show up to CLEAN UP after the action is over.
The “authorities” are not here now to protect you[ as they once were]. Now they are here to control you. At the Charlotte Demonstration[s], which in earlier days would have been called a riot, I saw a picture of a group that tee caption read were a group of BLM “Protesters” wrecking a Walmart. At the top was a police car protecting them. There were no police visible on the ground.