[MtnClimber]

They seemed to be carrying bats, poles and other clubs in open sight. Seems a battle to be exploited by the left was the plan.

[livius]

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.

[Enlightened1]

Yes that appears to be the plan all along.

It was a totally staged event.

[trebb]

The Left is the group that had weapons ready to go - the article says that they tried to claim the "evil White Supremacists" is the group that had weapons stashed - which the police debunked.

No getting around it - "the Protesters" were legally in the right and the Left incited and committed violence because that's what they do and they thought that the labeling of the protesters would give them all free rein and stay out of jail credentials.

Hope they have enough pictorial evidence to prosecute a few of the Leftist terrorist thugs.