The same thing is going on now that we saw during the Kent State fiasco.
Protesters, especially brought in, are intentionally spoiling for a confrontation. It puts the authorities on a razor edge between their duty under oath to the community and their instinct for self-preservation.
Police are hired, trained, equipped, paid (including their benefits), deployed at a tremendous expense to the very taxpayers and business owners who are now being targeted.
The MSM knows it. Do you think a single ‘journalist’ worth the name would have the common sense to also know and express what every citizen and public official already knows?
MSM will spin it as the gov’t. indiscriminately going after peaceful citizens, when in fact, the protesters are breaking the law. Each and every ‘protester’ can be should be apprehended and charged for several local and federal violations. There are many established laws on the books intended and expressly written to protect peaceful citizens from JUST such lawlessness.
Why does the MSM pretend this discord and destruction are defensible?
Because they want the same thing the rioters want: to remove President Trump, and to install a democrat-controlled government.
These outsiders get some locals fired up just hoping someone in law enforcement shoots a local. Then they just stand back out of harms way and watch their dirty work. They take an active part only to keep the fires stoked.
One of my wife’s in-laws 2 days ago was screaming on facebook, her city (Minneapolis) was going up in flames, and she found gasoline soaked wood in her alley, and pray for her. Then President Trump tweets, and suddenly the bitch starts with The Fat Orange Man Is Sending The Troops - People Are Going To Die. I unfriended her - now waiting for the family fallout.