Apparently, you can keep the peasants in line peacefully.
I don't know if this is a case of police doing it right, or if it's a regionalism that ended up working against the protesters, and wouldn't work in any other city, but:
Apparently St Louis has (at least in this case) figured out that you *can* actually kill ( a protest) with kindness. It's made me shake my head enough that I figure it's worth reposting.