I was there. I was shocked by the excessive force used by the police against protesters - many of whom were merely holding up small signs objecting to the renaming, none of whom were doing anything that could be remotely interpreted as dangerous - merely an exercise in free speech. Police dragged off protesters, including middle-aged women, grabbing them by the hair, with police hands roughly forced over their mouths to prevent them from speaking. At the time, I wasn't sure what the protest was about, but I knew that the police action was seriously over the top.