I was at many of those protests, the attempts to "burn down" a federal courthouse were laughably inept. The cops WANTED the protestors to get farther on it than they did, I talked to a group of about 12 cops the night the march went to the Mayor's house (completely peaceful march, camp set up outside his townhouse pied a terre, no violence or property damage that I'm aware of). Those cops were LIVING for the idea that they might get to brutalize a bunch of protestors for actually posing a threat to the Justice Center. But the people attempting to do so were, uh, not very good at it.

I've lived here for 23 years and been an activist intermittently through the years. The activists/antifa here are not the supersoliders the press, the cops and the mayors make them out to be. They're mostly street kids, crust punks, well-meaning college and grad school students, some hippies and autistic communists. Not an invading army ffs. Just folks. Also, Andy Ngo is a fascist bootlicker pissbaby loser and his followers are Nazis, so you can fuck right off with that "attempted murder of a gay immigrant journalist" tripe you're selling.