A relatively motionless person does not easily fake blood pouring from their nostrils.
So what happens now? The gummint there is killing folks and it appears that folks are becoming enraged by it. More killing won't stop this but rather just escalate the killing on both sides. The gummint there is really in a bad position. The best thing they could do would be leave town and turn things over but I doubt they will. Once set in motion events like this have their own kind of physics.
Brutality will be answered with brutality, IMHO.