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"Looks to me like the police knew they were overwhelmed and and were ordered to fallback."
Nah, I'm sure the police were ordered to physically fight people with hundreds-to-one odds. You 5 guys, stop a hundred people from passing that small metal barrier!
I can not say for sure since I do not have access to the radio transmission but it does look like some areas were instructed to just let the "flow" happen. Flow is how the energy of crowd control is directed. You don't "stop" a protest, you dilute or redirect the energy of the crowd.
I think there were multiple attempts to allow energetic flow to be directed or diluted. Also I think basic judgement calls were made, for instance if a call for direction comes in and law enforcement says they have 6 Operators at an entrance and they are looking at a few hundred protestors, then a judgement to tell them to stand by could be made.
Simply put, restraining just one person in front of a potentially volatile crowd could end up with 20 or 30 people engaging the two officers attempting the restraint. Nobody should issue an order to restrain people in a crowd that large, peaceful or not, without substantial cover or redirective methods.
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