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> While law enforcement leaders say they had hoped to continue facilitating the more peaceful elements of the demonstrations with a more distanced approach, there were pockets of aggressive behavior that posed a threat to officers, as well as attempts to breach the station's outer ring of fencing, which spurred action from law enforcement to clear the immediate area.

The protests became unlawful and rightfully so.

> A lot of journalists like myself were slow to leave the area,” Colt said. “We didn’t think we needed to, and we wanted to cover what was happening.”

> Colt described police then corralling protesters and media into one group and yelling for them to get “flat on our stomachs.”

Sounds like if you had the full context it wouldn’t be so outrageous.

How do we know people are press and not pretending to be to sneak behind police lines and set fire to the police station or things like that.