Might just as well poured gasoline over the town and lit a match. Given that loudmouth mayor has been all over TV attacking Trump it is a very reasonable inference that he got the exact result he wanted. He knew the media and left would fly cover for the alt-left people.
“There were no police in most of them.”
I read somewhere that the police actually funneled the two groups into each other. Sounded too conspiratorial to me, but now I don’t know.