I think you are correct. What worries me is that H&O will use this as an example of “why we need to get guns off our streets.” They will stress this is why traditional departments are inadequate for the job of policing. They will use this shooting to further take over and install their quasi-military, well-armed, civilian goon squads. We must never allow this to happen.
I’m thinking something a little different.
Shots fired over the heads of a mass of protesters into a line of heavily armed officers sounds remarkably similar to what some theorize happened at Kent State.
Regardless of whether that was the case at Kent State or not, provoking an already tense skirmish line of cops into an overreaction that kills unarmed protesters serves the purposes of any one of a number of radical violent revolutionary factions that exist here in the US (the Occupy “Black Block”, for
instance)