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Yesterday, I spoke with someone who personally was present outside the venue for this event. He was on the side of the street with the protestors. He is a former LEO and was watching the armed individuals whom he termed "Antifa" because of their attire. He looked at their rifles, looking for consistency (meaning that they might have been issued from a common store) but said that each rifle looked different, suggesting individual ownership. He was aware of some of these individuals who were in a nearby parking garage but showed up as soon as things started to heat up. There was discussion of a sniper among them.

His opinion was that the most obnoxious attendees were on the protestor side, with one woman being the most provocative. If the purpose was to point out how the event was inappropriate for children, repeatedly shouting the F-bomb is hardly the way to make that point. Sometimes people are their own worst enemies.

His observation was that he did not know the armed counter-protesters who were fitted with comms/ear pieces and obviously communicating electronically among themselves. He pondered while standing there that the whole thing could have gone South in an instant and that he was not well prepared if it did. For me, his comments point up the major difference between ordinary citizens trying to bring attention to something and those who are determined to shove such things down our collective throats. Rarely are we organized and coordinated at that level. That implies funding which is also lacking on our side.