What were the police doing BEFORE the statue fell? Regardless of whose side you are on, destruction of private property is a crime and should not be tolerated. Is this kind of behavior going to be tolerated by officials in charge from now on? Police, for the most part, had a stand-down order in Charlottesville last Saturday. Police know how to do their jobs, but apparently weren't allowed to. The result was chaos in the streets with injuries and deaths that followed. "To Serve and Protect" seems to have turned into "Film, Standby and Prosecute Later". What a shame.