individual who only tried to use it as self-defense. he got away with all of this and then the police stepped in.s s what you are seeing is a man being stomped on, and it actually took them going out to police personally to keep this alive. they were not intervening and it looked as though the city was complicit with the violence. laura: this is what mayor wheeler said about how it all went down.watch. we were preparing for and planning for a worst-case scenario, and i m very pleased that, at least so far, this did not happen. i i m grateful that this was largely a peaceful event. at least what i saw in the film, i wasn t there, you were, was that an aberration? was that video footage an aberration or was it that wild, russ construction and violent for most ruckous and violent for most of the time?