Agreed — the “drum circle” should be the very first recipients of rubber bullets.
Volley fire ...
"If the club of the policeman, knocking out the brains of the rioter, will answer, then well and good; but if it does not promptly meet the exigency, then bullets and bayonets, canister and grapeshot...constitute the one remedy. Napoleon was right when he said the way to deal with a mob is to exterminate it."
Henry Ward Beecher