The police have completely lost control.
The similarity of passive responses and approach in different cities, suggests that it is how they have been trained and prepared to act in these circumstances.
As others have said, I don’t understand how there can be a very different chapter in the training manual for football matches.
I appreciate that police numbers may be down from what it should be, but surely get stuck in and gain the upper hand, is better than standing back and enabling escalation.
The majority of those joining in aren’t hard core, committed political protestors, they’re opportunistic half-wits. They wouldn’t be there if they knew that bruises and jail were a likely outcome.