General Discussion

at least for the most part, I would suggest--- IMHO--- that the worst things are being done
by trouble-making opportunists---- BUT---
it is no worse than things that happened in East Lansing when an MSU sports team lost an important game,
AND, EVEN Republican Governors felt no need to send in the National Guard on those nights----

The local police were quite able to 'handle' the situation,
although in their riot gear, they often went overboard.
I was a taxi driver there on some of those nights,
and heard from passengers about how tear gas canisters were bouncing through doors
into the local bars.... and dodged my share of burning couches in the middle of the street,
but I never thought any National Guardsmen were needed...

There is a difference between the peaceful protests during the day,
and the things that are happening at night,
which are being characterized as a continuation of those same protests,
but I don't think that they are.... more like, a 'transition'