From what I've gathered the current president (or their equivalent) has been encouraging the use of force on protesters, some incidents under reported include a protesters hand being blown off by a grenade of some kind, choking a 14 year old girl, and smashing a protesters head through a window.
I mean, I don't see how someone could expect the police to just stand there and do nothing whilst being pelted with rocks, molotovs, chimneys etc and watch a historical town hall building being burned to the ground
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u/PracticalSyllabub514 9h ago
Protests probably started peacefully, the hen the government sent in the riot police to fuck with people, now they're fighting back.