Paid rent a mobs makes them professional combatants.

That changes the deal entirely. Protest organizers is one thing, rent a mobs, with some backroom deal with the police for selective destruction and protection, that's straight out of the old school Nazi playbook.

It means that retaliatory raids on their offices are definitely on the table when it comes to damages done to anyone with the means to pull of that sort of retaliation.

This meant looting and burning for political advantage AND profit.

They fucking started it, what comes of that is them, all on them.

I could almost see it if it was some shady mob sort of thing, but this is pure bullshit, full 501C status, back door government funding. That makes them agents of the government no matter how that shit ads up.

Entirely different animal than a spontaneous riot of pissed off people.