Yeah it's times like these you peaceful protestors need to reach for the Antifa-branded concealable credit card knife eh?
Yeeah because "peaceful protesters" are synonymous with all of antifa, and your wholly peaceful conservatives showed up with helmets, cudgels and shields like bargain basement riot cops to be all peaceful with.
You know, turning up with shields and helmets is what you do if you expect to be confronted with a bunch of violent spasticated peaceful protestors. You can hardly blame people for wanting to minimise the risk of injuries.
But yeah, I doubt many of them had these:
Unlike the other side who explicitly turned up to peacefully counter-protest, remember.
And despite this, plus honest-to-god explosives, a massive numbers advantage AND the mayor ordering the police to stand down and not intervene, the communists got their fuckin' heads kicked in. Good show, chaps ^_^