Lenin’s old dictum for his Bolshevik troops was “Probe with bayonets. If you encounter steel, withdraw. If you encounter mush, proceed.”
These “officers of the law” are mush, so the communists proceed towards the destruction they always bring.
This is true of every department in the US, except perhaps NYPD...which is now being reduced to mush by Mayor Al Sharpton and his Vice-Mayor Wilhelm (aka De Blasio).
Title should have been
Rioters meet Malt O Meal