Throwing chunks of asphalt weren't rioters only violent tactics at the #RVA protests this week & the reason for the Unlawful Assembly declarations. #VSP & Richmond Police Department have been hit by urine-filled balloons. We’ve intercepted ball bearings & Molotov cocktails. Rioters launched their own smoke grenades - see how the purple smoke is BEHIND the LEOs. The rioters intentionally blinded LEOs with laser pointers & strobe lights. And the white splotches on the pavement are from the glue thrown at #VSP shields to obscure the troopers' line of sight. BTW...Code of Virginia 18.2-57.01 - Pointing laser at law-enforcement officer unlawful If any person, knowing or having reason to know another person is a law-enforcement officer as defined in § 18.2-57...engaged in the performance of his public duties as such, intentionally projects at such other person a beam or a point of light from a laser, a laser gun sight, or any device that simulates a laser, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.