It wasn’t a peace march, the organisers called for attendees to carry out citizen’s arrests on anyone they believed to be attending the convention. In 7:30’s footage you can see random people who have no connection to anything happening trying to walk past and being assaulted by protestors because of how they dress. The language used by the protestors was not “we are here to protest” but instead “we are here to disrupt” so their intentions yesterday were clearly never to be peaceful. In the footage you can also see some of them deliberately and repeatedly running into the police while filming for TikTok so they can be pushed away and scream about police brutality to their viewers.
EDIT: I should make clear that I’m referring to the organisers of the event and those protestors involved in violence. From what I understand there were like 2000 - 3000 people there and clearly not all of them were causing problems.
It wasn’t a peace march, the organisers called for attendees to carry out citizen’s arrests on anyone they believed to be attending the convention. In 7:30’s footage you can see random people who have no connection to anything happening trying to walk past and being assaulted by protestors because of how they dress. The language used by the protestors was not “we are here to protest” but instead “we are here to disrupt” so their intentions yesterday were clearly never to be peaceful. In the footage you can also see some of them deliberately and repeatedly running into the police while filming for TikTok so they can be pushed away and scream about police brutality to their viewers.
EDIT: I should make clear that I’m referring to the organisers of the event and those protestors involved in violence. From what I understand there were like 2000 - 3000 people there and clearly not all of them were causing problems.