Most of the clips I saw showed non-cops with shields and sticks hitting non-cops with shields and sticks. Both sides came looking for a fight, and they found it.
I now find that there was a permitted counter-protest. The mayor / city authorities / VA governor are morons for letting these two groups have events on the same day in close proximity.
The cops, and the politicians, are never going to settle this vast difference of opinion.
I had a cousin with two boys, about a year apart...they got into so many spats, he went out and bought two sets of boxing gloves. When they fought, they had to put on the gloves and fight it out, right on the spot.
Before long, they became best friends, and didn’t fight anymore.
Let the two sides fight it out. It’s going to take that to ever settle it, once and for all.