Should deputies have done more to keep Yorba Linda protesters apart?

At contentious rallies such as the one Saturday in Yorba Linda that pitted Black Lives Matters supporters against counter-protesters, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said it attempts to balance the right to assemble and be heard against the need to keep the peace.
The sides lined six-lane Imperial Highway across from each other until some of the counter-protesters, waving American flags and Trump 2020 banners, surged across the road. Deputies moved in and some counter-protesters ret