I have two friends who were standing near there and they say Antifa was beating the chit out of the cops.
Yep. I know of one situation where they had beat a cop down, and MAGA got between them and the cop, in sort of a ring, and tried to protect the cop while calling for help. The antifa goons were trying to punch the cops through the ring, tried to go up and over them to get to the cop who was on the ground.