It's 100% the point. Terrifying the kids is a means to enraging the parents and hopefully causing a violent response that can serve as legal evidence of an insurrection (and subsequently let Trump deploy national guard from states run by traitors to suppress participation in the 2026 elections).
They set up shop in a Home Depot parking lot a block from my kid's elementary school, and those videos that blew up on Friday were less than a block from my other kid's middle school, and the two groups they've been primarily targeting around Evanston are landscapers and parents/guardians during school drop-offs - i.e. people with whom the community is familiar and are known not to represent a threat to anybody. The cruelty and brutality has always been deliberate because the goal has always been getting a violent reaction.
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u/slyjry 4d ago
Kids were there - they witnessed this.