You may need to do a little more reading. The left wing press really does not want you to know that there even is another side to things.
https://buildingblocksforliberty.org/2020/06/coeur-dalene-idaho-stands-upantifa-stands-down/
That can *only* work if local law enforcement supports it or at least is neutral/does not care/has decided to be busy ‘somewhere else’. It does *not* work in places where LE has been told to support BLM/AF.
You are forgetting my post above - *I’ve done this before* so I’m not forgetting jack about ‘the other side’. I have already been on a roof with a rifle standing off riotous mobs, thanks.
It would likely not have been possible for long if LAPD had decided to do anything except abandon the city.