PHOTO: Before Metro Police deployed tear gas in the direction of demonstrators at the end of a Black Lives Matter protest Saturday night, officers stood back as agitators hurled rocks and bottles “for a very long time,” Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said.
That won’t be the case on Sunday.
Officers are stationed at three possible protest points across the valley Sunday evening with instructions to act before violence escalates so that the “peaceful protest(s) can continue,” McMahill said.
The demonstration in downtown on Saturday led to 103 arrests. Eleven officers were injured, a pawn shop was looted, a Metro SUV was torched, and taggers defaced various business fronts and government buildings.