[Pollard]

"The violence was horrible. We do not condone violence, but if we started making a proclamation, a memorandum, an agreement or a statement on every single act of violence, it's going to be somewhat challenging," Wilder said.

I tend to agree. They should have more important things to do. The vandalism should be handled by cops finding and charging the perps and by the court punishing them.

[jeffersondem]

“They should have more important things to do.”

Name one thing more important than local public officials discouraging violence.

In other jurisdictions when the police chief’s bosses wink at violence, the police chief does too.