The “protesters” usually do have weapons hidden - a family member who is a police officer has participated in inspections of the protest route before these events and they always find the parts of these homemade weapons stashed in the bushes, in trash cans, etc. The “protesters” pick up the parts and assemble them as they go so that the weapons do not get detected and confiscated before the protest gets underway.
Do the police not check before the event area if they think weapons are stashed. It seems like many are looking the other way, probably due to leftist orders. If they did not want clashes they would not allow non-permitted people in such numbers. I am not a neo nazi supporter at all, they are just white supremacist leftist totalitarians and about the mirror of black lives matter.
Dud they bring trees and lathes to assemble their baseball bats at the scene?