That's the kind of escalation the police are apparently, for now at least, trying to avoid. Because there are enough people on both sides, with weapons, including potentially members of the police and armed forces, that it could end up with snipers on the buildings from both sides - and lots of them.
Nobody should advocate that kind of thing. Take a look at the news and videos from Syria to see where that kind of violence ends up. What is necessary is for both sides to calm down and move away from further violence.
Right, agitprop procedure is to agitate, elicit a forceful response, then propgandize to make maximum use of the response.
You try to gain the implied position of being in the right.
The big bad government did ___.
Of course, you don’t include your agitation in your propaganda report.
Well, the protesters are throwing large stones at the police. So , if we have the police throw the stones back to the protesters, that would fair, right?