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Hmm... If they want to stop rioting and looting, why are they going after "protestors" rather than the rioters and looters? Someone's torching a mall? No police in sight. People are walking and chanting in the street? That calls for a crowd of 1000 police fully decked out in military gear and tear gas, itching to crush heads.

>>ryandr+(OP)
They don't care about rioting or looting. Watch how the police have been arranged, in Los Angeles at least. They are there to make the protest seem dangerous, while intentionally allowing looting to go on 2 streets over.

The idea is to allow scary looking but ultimately meaningless damage to occur while blaming it on protestors.

>>tehweb+Z
That is just not true. Lapd was not prepared to handle the changes in technology since 1992 and the roving bands of organized looters.

They adjusted their strategy drastically on Monday and caught easily hundreds of looters on live tv. Their response times were under 5 minutes and they boxed in an entire caravan of looters at one point and caught them all.

There has been basically no looting today at all so far.

>>tehweb+Z
The respond to peaceful protests with violence, which causes rioting, which leads to more power and money for police.