[LouD]

The police told me that they had been told not to arrest anyone

I guess that meant it was open season on lefties.

The thing about most lefties is they are wussies. (After all: If they had grown up valuing martial virtues, they'd be conservatives.) I've always found that they are pretty brave in a bottle and rock throwing mob, but if you start peeling them off and beating them silly one at a time, they go down like extras in a Kung Fu movie.

[Prodigal Son]

but if you start peeling them off and beating them silly one at a time,

You don't have to beat a lefty silly- they're already there ;-)
But I know what you're saying. They tend to make funny noises with the proper application of knuckles.