So.
Protect the people who are protesting, who have the time to go out and protest? Or protect the people who desperately need to go to work, to get their paycheck, to feed their children? I don't know about you, but after they dispersed the intersection, I saw a taxi, a truck, and a vehicle or two starting to go through right at the end of the video. I'm sure that truck was carrying something, and for the taxi, well, time is money.
A few cops may have gone a bit overboard, but they're only human. They can't perfectly wrestle down a 150 pound man without giving him a bruise or two, but they need to do that, they're trained to do that.
If they had simply taken up sidewalks, letting people walk through and not blocking entrances to any stores or causing unrest, then I doubt the cops would have had do to anything, except just to show up to make sure things didn't go south.
The cops may have been a bit out of line at some points, but it was for a good reason, definitely.







