[piasa]

Police equipped with assault rifles and wearing military helmets and fatigues were escorted by a green armored personnel carrier and a helicopter that hovered overhead. On at least one occasion they charged the crowd, pointing their weapons at the chests of reporters and protesters, after a few plastic water bottles were launched in their direction.

This is the obligatory militarized police meme. All kinds of detail about the cops trying to make it sound like Iraq but the rioter's actions are minimized to a "few" little water bottles [which were most certainly not full of water, but rather something else, and which when full weigh about the same as a brick.]

[cripplecreek]

"few" little water bottles [which were most certainly not full of water, but rather something else, and which when full weigh about the same as a brick.]

They're also not mentioning that a lot of these harmless water bottles are also frozen.