[lurk2]

> Lost control

Dyer gave explicit orders to fire into the crowd.

[mibes]

That sounds like loosing control of a protest to me

[lurk2]

They did not lose control of a protest. The Indians were not permitted to assemble. When it was discovered that an assembly was meeting, the British entered the square where the assembly occurred and massacred those present.

[hermitcrab]

And many of those present were women and children.