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destruction or any of that. i -- and i agree that the police had to stop it. and, you know, that makes perfect sense. i guess, you know -- the one thing i would be curious about, though, is what -- why is the distinction of people being from out of town so important? i mean, the first amendment certainly applies to the people out of town as well. their contention would be that these are national issues, that the questions around policing, around the environmental issues, the construction of the police training facility, all of these issues are national, and in fact global issues. so ...

Doesn't have ties to the community. and that's why it's of relevance. because it's not people can't come in to plan that to protest, it's why are almost all the arrestees from out of state? that suggests one of two things. and we don't know yet who these people are. an organization that is more radical than the community organization, would yous eye lens, an organization that opposes police or police training facility. or an organization that wants to make the protesters look bad. as we've seen this in past cases as well. i am just laying out the range of possibilities at this stage, but it is...

Quickly by the police, which happened, and i think it is telling that most of these people are not from atlanta. not even from georgia. these organizations, those who want to disrupt peaceful protest often come in to interrupt. so it looks like it's under control now, but the distinction between, oh, going after cop cars or buildings really is not a distinction that is knowable in realtime. you simply don't know how this will escalate. and that is why the police have to deal with it as if it were -- as if it were just violence, if that's what it is. >> david, do you know if more protests are p...

Emphasize that point. >> here's why the police were emphasizing it, and i totally agree with david, these are national issues, you're going to have people from out of state. if you have a community protest around, say, a community facility, you would assume that most of the members are from the community. they also want to protect their community, they do not want this kind of vandalism as we have seen in the past. it benefits no one who lives near the community or in the community for this kind of violence. i mean, this kind of behavior. so then if your pool of arrested people, the people who...