Even here

It started as a peaceful protest.  This evenng I saw on the 5pm news that there was a protest being held by the courthouse in downtown Fort Wayne because of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  Protesters are not an unuual occurance at the courthouse. You can often drive by and see people waving signs for one cause or another.  From all reports this one started very peacefully and steadily grew until there were over 500 people downtown.  Later I heard it grew to a thousand. by 9pm there was live coverage from at least one of our local stations reporting that police were firing tear gas into the crowd, some windows had been broken at a nearby law office and at least one of the heavy concrete planters that line the downtown sidewalks  had been tipped over.  Not much compared to what is going on in other citie but still so sad. From what I heard, just a few people started throwing things and getting in the way of traffic.  I feel bad for the original organizers of the protest. who. I think. truly did want a peaceful protest.