Prudent advice on avoiding such areas altogether. The threat zone is 360° horizontal and vertically as high as the highest building.
Even armed police groups are not safe in such zones.
As proof I offer the photo of a ‘yout’ proudly brandishing a broken Lexan police shield as a trophy. An example of training and doctrine failure. Don’t know if the officers were overwhelmed to become casualties or merely fled leaving their useless shields behind.
Rocks lobbed from a crowd or thrown from rooftops can be as deadly as bullets.
They have no PO-leece dogs in that town?