Sure hate on the pawns all you want.
This is all part of the plan.
Save your hate for the hand that's moving the pawns.
This problem could be cleaned up in a day or two.
But right now those "poor police" that got beaten up would be the first to arrest, you beat you and shoot you for defending yourself or taking out the trash.
Just look what they did to the guy who stopped the knife wielding madman on the train.