Just as in the 60's protests, this 'crackdown' is also about class warfare...blue collar cops against the privileged college kids whose parents can supposedly afford the tuition.

As you write, pity that both are actually on the same side, only the militarized police fail to see the leash.

And for some reason, protests against US military weapons being used with impunity against an oppressed people makes one an unpatriotic commie.