Many of you know that back in the day I was a radical leftist. I lived in San Francisco in the early 1970s and I protested the war in Vietnam on several occasions. I got teargassed a few times, but I can tell you I never ran TOWARD the police. When they started lobbing the teargas cannisters we ran like hell. The one time someone did get killed in one of those demonstrations (Kent State), the protester was completely innocent, just engaging in his constitutional rights to protest.
These new radicals seem to want to intentionally poke the bear to the extent that someone gets killed, and then scream police brutality, etc. The fact that a 36 year old mom with a 6-year old child could put herself in this level of jeopardy is, to me, the most perplexing thing about this case. The fact that there are thousands more like her out there is just plain scary.
Someone is organizing it, and someone is funding it.