The dim bulb Indymedia hippie was shot because he was a member of the anarchist/Marxist mob charging a group of people who were trying to tear down the barricades set up by the anarchist/Marxists. There were definitely state police in there - they had been confined to their barracks, but some had gone out to avenge an earlier attack on them by the radical leftists. But this was hardly an unprovoked shooting, and this "innocent journalist" was neither a journalist, strictly speaking, nor innocent.
When the cops are done down there, send them to Detroit.