> The police had clubs but it wasn't clear what other weapons they might have had to deter rioters. They didn't appear to deploy any in the clips I saw. So, rioters had absolutely no fear that they would face any real resistance from the police.  How awful. When will the police arrest the people who like and repost this. Those are the real bad guys. In all seriousness, they made a good point in the article, "why didn't they bring better riot gear?" Well, so that they can "we did all we could, and now we need to censor harder"