Well they do have a sense of smell don't they? I mean really. True, many people that aren't in the know may say wtf, but we're talking about cops that are "trained" to distinguish crack from meth or whatever, and you're telling me they can't smell beer brewing? Please.
I'm not on the side of these moron protesters either, especially if their is evidence that they were planning on bombing or Molotov cocktailing anybody, but I am for civil rights. And as I said if they were worried that it was really something explosive in nature they would have cleared the buildings and brought in special squads to remove this stuff. They weren't worried enough about it to have the bomb squad come in so they knew what it was.and as I said taking it was just punitive in nature.