We saw this in St. Louis a few years ago. The media tried to portray people getting kettled, beat and shot by cops as rioters and vandals. That was more far from the truth. Often they were just people trying to get home or go to work. There was one night I was leaving a music performance and walked out the exit onto an block where cops where marching on from both directions. Some of the people leaving that show got kettled and bear sprayed. For the fortunate of us, myself included, we realized what was going on and convinced the venue and the next door bar that was just locking up to let us duck inside for bit until we were behind the line of fascist enforcers.