The police weren’t defending themselves, they were shooting people with sniper rifles who were not directly threatening them. That’s murder. Yanukovych made exactly the wrong move and now he will pay for it. Last time he survived politically because he didn’t try to use force against his own people. Not this time. Whine all you want.
Are you saying that the “protestors” were not throwing firebombs at the police? What would happen to “protestors” throwing firebombs at the Secret Service guarding the White House?