Anyone police executive that cares to could read any number of after action reports from Ferguson and Baltimore and be prepared.
They failed to have the assets and plans in place for this, forced the two sides to collide and then left.
Somebody has to tell that mayor to go to hell, we have to keep peace.
And if that means getting stick time in, or deploying CS, then by God you do it.
Or be prepared to watch your town burn down ala Ferguson.
Singer worked with Podesta/0bama/Edwards/Kaine/McAuliffe.
“In the 2008 elections, Signer was foreign policy advisor to the John Edwards for President campaign.[17] He was later senior strategist on the 2008 Congressional campaign of Tom Perriello. Signer was senior policy advisor at the Center for American Progress and later that year worked with John Podesta on President-Elect Barack Obama’s State Department Transition Team.[2]
In 2009, Signer was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, receiving 21% of the vote.[18]
From 2009 to 2013, Signer was an appointee by Governor Tim Kaine to Virginia’s Board of Medicine. He was a member of the finance committee for Terry McAuliffe for governor and later served as chair of Governor-elect McAuliffe’s Transition Council on Homeland Security.[14] Earlier in his career, he was legislative aide to then-Delegate Creigh Deeds.
Signer created an Advisory Council on Innovation and Technology to link stakeholders in the Charlottesville technology sector. Governor Terry McAuliffe appointed him to the Council on Virginia’s Future.[citation needed] During Signer’s tenure as Mayor, Charlottesville was named by Entrepreneur as the #4 City in the U.S. for entrepreneurship.[19]
During Signer’s tenure, the city council created an Open Data policy[20] and required agencies to register voters to vote online...”
Wikipedia.
Yep. The mayor of Charlottesville owns this.