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I am proud that though all the provocations, there haven't been hardly any headlines of Trump supporters killing protesters when attacked by them.

You might have missed this one, it turns out it didn't really go national, but was in the news here in Washington for a couple days:

How the shooting at the UW protest of Milo Yiannopoulos unfolded

A man suffering from a gunshot wound is helped away from the scene in Red Square on Friday. (Johnny Andrews / The Seattle Times)

6 p.m.
A confrontation between Trump supporters and anarchists and socialists began to heat up Friday night at the UW ahead of Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ sold-out speech at Kane Hall, which seats 700 people.

Riot police prevent protesters from entering the hall.
7 p.m.
The doors to the event opened.
UW spokesman Norm Arkans said a couple hundred ticket holders had gotten into Kane Hall as the situation outside became increasingly volatile.
8:20 p.m.
Yiannopoulos took the stage.

Alex St. Hilaire, a student at Mariner High School, is attacked outside the University of Washington’s Kane Hall where controversial Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on Friday. Seattle police say one person was shot and wounded in the University of Washington crowd Friday night, where Trump supporters and self-described anti-fascists have been clashing for hours. (Johnny Andrews / The Seattle Times)
8:30 p.m.
A man was shot among the protesters outside Kane Hall.
News of the shooting began to spread among those in attendance of Yiannopoulos’ speech. The right-wing editor of Breitbart left the stage, saying, “Stay in your seats. I’ll be right back.”
Yiannopoulos later returned to stage and said the show would go on. “If we don’t continue, they have won,” he said as the crowd rose and cheered.

OK, here's where it gets a little confusing. Even the media knows that all the violence at these rallies has been perpetrated by the left on completely innocent Trump supporters merely trying to hear a speech

So, when the first reports of a shooting came in everyone thought "the anarchists have gone even further, and are shooting people.

But in fact the shooter was a Trump supporter, a student at UW, and a legal CCW holder. He claimed he shot the protester, identified as a Socialist and member of the far left Workers of the World (Wobblie) Union.

The narrative confusion was increased when the shooter made an off-hand comment to someone while leaving the event which was overheard and repeated to the media. He said he was "attacked by some crazed white supremacist".

This was actually brilliant. With this one comment the Trump supporter completely befouled the beloved leftist narrative. Turns out the shooter is Asian and the anarchist "Wobblie" street thug is white, so he flipped all the bad reporting over on it's back on the way out of the event.

Back to the timeline:

1:10 a.m. Saturday
Police said a person of interest in the shooting turned himself in to UW police.
But the man was released after telling investigators he fired in self-defense during a campus protest, according to two law-enforcement officials briefed on the case.
One of the law-enforcement officials said the man who fired the gun claimed he had been assaulted before shooting the other man, whom he believed to be some type of white supremacist. Friends of the Dukes, his attorney and the socialist union he was allegedly part of, however, disputed that characterization.