Ummm, why are they not immediately deploying flashbangs, tear gas grenades and the like against these rioters?

Is that not what they typically do? Judging by the bodycam footage taken from that one fastidious prick zealous officer I thought that the standard procedure for dealing with a crowd of protestors was:

1. THROW GRENADES INTO THE CROWD as soon as you have made contact with the riotous assembly and are within range. If they do not begin to disperse: CONTINUE TO THROW GRENADES. Do not worry about striking someone with a canister. Continue to monitor the crowd - if they have STILL NOT DISPERSED you are advised to KEEP THROWING THEM DAMN GRENADES. If you are out run up to other agents and borrow theirs. KEEP THROWING!

1a. If the crowd has not dispersed, survey the area and answer the following: Is the crowd somehow barricaded or stuck, preventing retreat? Is the crowd so large that protesters cannot physically move away?

1b. That's just to cover your ass later, in case some ACLU pussy gets involved! Now, what am I gonna tell you to do???

1c. THROW THEM LIKE YOUR PLAYING FUCKING COUNTER STRIKE, OK BIG DAWG?!?!?

2. If the crowd advances or begins to clamber over stairs and objects, fire into them with your weapon. If they come toward you for any reason, spray their asses with rubber bullets.

3. Okay hotshot, you've done well to let these rioting urban Jihadists know that they need to respect meh authoriteh Officer Cartman style, but what's that? A few little Hornets are zipping around with their stingers out, trying to form lines and push?

4.NUT UP AND GET INTO THAT FRAY. Borrow any equipment you don't have and think you need - riot shield, baton, taser - and show them why steroids are cool.

5. REPRISAL. Did the guy next to you just get pushed? BASH THAT SKULL. OMG, BILL FELL DOWN! TASER THAT SCUM. Bonus points for dicks and nipples. Remember to act dramatically, as though you have to let loose with all you got to survive! A few puny Trumpers against your fully armored squad may not ACTUALLY present any threat, but stay on the cagey little bastards. Push them down and zip tie their hands together if they so much as squirm. You are a hero of democracy today my son!

6.If you have down time... you guessed it. GRENADES! FRAG OUT!

Well, I got a little overzealous here for sure, but it sure is pretty STRIKING to watch how they handle a crowd of protestors who are potentially MORE obstinate and uncooperative then any encounter made during J6. It's almost like they shouldn't have started by using force on a large crowd unless they wanted to scale up the violence to control the narrative, or something....

I will find that bodycam footage and post it here, also. You guys know the one ....