Problem is, the cops in Berkeley are as liberal as the rest of them. They are probably cheering it on.
And he really does not want a repeat of Kent State on his watch either.
Much as I would love to see on the news a video of riot troops chasing a bunch of rainbow-flag perverts, Communist sympathizers and petty criminals down the street, pounding on and then arresting anyone they can catch, the sad truth is that way too many of my countrymen are a bunch of total lilly-livered cowards when it comes to law enforcement. And that’s putting it nicely.
Trump already has good reason to worry about a leftist coup attempt without something like that sending a lot of people over to support such an attempt because otherwise they quietly support Trump but their little hearts bleed like a fountain for criminals and ‘free speech’.