With the stuff going in Baltimore, one can't help but think about this type of thing again. Avoid "demonstrations" like the plague. I can't believe how much restraint the LE showed. I feel bad for them and the area residents. You can bet your ass that if someone is hurling bricks, rocks, molotov cocktails, etc. through the air at me or speeding toward me in a car, I will consider them to be an immediate threat to my life and act accordingly. These idiot kids are out there playing a very stupid game and, with no consequences, that's all it is.
I don't think that police retreating like they did in Baltimore or just standing there getting pelted by bricks or watching the morons burn the city down around them does a single thing other than embolden the "protesters" and encourage them to go farther.They're chomping at the bit for an excuse to do this stuff.
This behavior seems to be getting more frequent and more violent and dangerous, which isn't a surprise since there hasn't been any consequences for these morons for the most part. I think it's a dangerous precedent and, without some big changes, I think we'll see more of it in more cities (especially if it's a long, hot summer), and I think that it's bad news that Nation of Islam (an SPLC hate group) is getting involved and organizing multiple gangs in relation to what's going on. It doesn't take a big leap of the imagination to see how some brainwashed idiot could get radicalized by another similarly named group that is intent on doing harm to this county and then pull off something on a bigger scale.