You're not kidding.
One of the European news outlets showed a demonstrator in Seattle who had gotten his hands on one of the police AR-15s; an undercover cop drew his gun and grabbed it from him.
You can see it here at about the 1:15 - 1:20 mark: tagesschau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAMUejexa0
If it’s this incident, it was a private security man hired by a news crew for protection while filming the riots.
Actually, he was armed security for a tv reporter.