It isn’t only thug takeovers, it is the ecowarriors blocking streets and bridges and any other group that refuses to allow normal people to go about their business and businesses unmolested by these jerks.
For too long, the left has allowed unbridled fanatics exempt from consequences.
In my city, the left is attempting to gin up action (midterms coming) by screaming about the blacks murdered. They leave out the most salient part: by each other.
No one is buying the rhetoric this time.