Large-scale unrest in cities share a common characteristic—they are extremely prone to spiraling out of control.
A crowd of emotionally charged people squeezed together is inherently difficult to manage, and military police, aware of this and often outnumbered, are more likely to react excessively. At such times, the scene is like a powder keg soaked inside and out with gasoline and filled with combustible gas, where a single spark can trigger an explosion, let alone an incendiary bomb.
The various street protests in the Duchy were rapidly escalating under intense interactions, developing toward increasingly bloody directions.
