I know you don't like to visit "****hole" cities, but if you have ever been there as I have many many times, and actually believe they took "over six blocks" you're pretty much the person Trump and Fox News were looking to instigate this to.
The actual area they were in wasn't even that big. The police agreed with them for everyone on both sides' safety to set up the barricades further down to not pin them in to the small area they actually occupied. The area also fluctuated, and the police/city and protesters kept moving the boundaries in agreement. Crazy how the police and city worked with the protesters huh?
Obviously like other protests in recent history, you had the few idiots who decided to make everyone look bad (which is a big contrast to 1/6 where the majority there was ready to ride the whatever wave into the Capitol).