Fire hoses at full pressure would be my first choice.
A10 wart hogs would be my first choice
[ Fire hoses at full pressure would be my first choice. ]
Nah, instead use “Foam cannons, with capsiacin ( ie. Mace) mixed in with the soapy suds”
The Hippies are forced to get a bath because you soap them up and they have to rinse to get the mace off themselves, best way to “clean up’ the smelly Hippie Crowd.
Fire hoses? Too much work. Actually, Special Forces and martial arts guys can inflict a lot of damage while exposing very little of their “technique” to the cameras.
Naaah, the leftists would love that. They're deluded enough to think getting hosed would make them the equivalent of civil rights heroes in Selma.
Instead of hoses, how about a riot-control device that emits painful blasts of noise. I remember seeing this used somewhere to good effect --it quickly disperses the ruffians without doing permanent damage. As long as the National Guard has good earplugs in supply.