Jophiel wrote:
I heard, and can not cite because it was a day or two ago and I don't recall where, that part of the issue with police involvement was the number of armed Alt-Right protesters. There was a concern about escalating from punches and thrown urine bottles to an actual shooting event.
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"Collectively, we decided that restraint and public safety would be our priority," he said, noting that his office was recently challenged in court over arrests of demonstrators at public meetings. "As the Sheriff, I am not blind to the offensive conduct of some demonstrators nor will I ignore their criminal conduct."
This is all assuming there's no overarching public danger, of course, which is probably pretty debatable at times.
Also inb4 conspiracy, and police state watching everyone, and no record of misconduct this way, etc.
Edited, Aug 15th 2017 12:30pm by someproteinguy