I would suggest you get your timeline down and think about why this protest and not the previous protests at the same location became violent.  "Preordained", hardly.  "Who started it?", your answer is nothing more than a guess.  Any evidence for that "slightest provocation" or just more guess work?  You do get one thing partially right, there is no equivalence between the peaceful non-violent counter protesters and alt-right protesters peaceable or not.  I almost forgot, I have to "Dick and Jane" this for almost everyone in this forum, I'm on the peaceful non-violent counter protesters side.  Finally, I would appreciate it if you would leave your passive aggressive insults out of your replies to me in the future.