[FredZarguna]

Well, I can't speak for everyone posting here, but I would suspect that most -- like me -- have no problem with the police showing a huge presence at this kind of meeting. Nor any problem with police arresting people during a riot. Nor with arresting people who are not guilty during a riot.

In fact, I would have no problem with police wading into this crew once the violence started, with truncheons swinging, no questions asked.

What I do have a problem with -- and what I suspect most people here have a problem with -- is a bunch of dead people who were apparently all killed by policemen.

[WayneS]

...AND we have a problem with the people who are not guilty, but who were swept up in the arrests, continuing to be held on $1,000,000 bond after 3-4 weeks.

There has been plenty of time for the police and prosecutors to separate the "weekend bikers" (as one person here put it) from the criminal element responsible for starting the fight.

[This assumes, of course, that the police are not the ones who started the fight. If that turns out to be the case, then the rest of the 170 arrested "bikers" should be released immediately and some police officers need to be arrested and have $1,000,000 bonds set for them.]

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, I can't speak for everyone posting here, but I would suspect that most -- like me -- have no problem with the police showing a huge presence at this kind of meeting.

LOL! So, all the real criminals in town need to do is look up the meeting schedule and go burgle, rob, and do whatever on the other side of town...while the police cordon sits around with their scoped rifles with a bead on people who might be praying no @sshole in the parking lot next door decides to light a firecracker...

Talk about presumption of guilt!

And what groups which normally have peaceful meetings will be next? The HOA? The PTA? Maybe the local Garden Club or the DAR?

Gee whiz, even those Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts wear distinctive insignia, uniforms, even, and have patches denoting which 'chapter' they belong to...They just don't have CIs and UCs infiltrating their operation (yet). So, once it starts, where does it stop? That whole "cookie" thingy is pretty suspicious.

Okay, /s, sorta.