Not sure if you saw my post a few days ago but I took my daughter to the Fayetteville protests for 3 straight days. There are people who are mainly from the west coast, i met many people from Oregon and Seatlle and California.
They are easy to spot because they were wearing all black and had super duper face masks on. They had backpacks with spray paint and passed out lots of these mixtures of water and baby shampoo to recover from mace.
I SAW THEM painting BLM and defend the police all over buildings in Fayetteville.
I also saw many of them looting items and then giving them to people and encouraging raucous behavior. I was most upset by the fact that stupid locals took the instructions so well.
All three days it started with chanting, religious leaders, followed by angry women who would constantly ask to pray about something. Then like clockwork, just before dark these seedy characters with ratty beards appear and start revving up the teen and early twenty-somethings.
Then you have the rioting. However the rioting was nowhere near as widespread as it looks on TV. I may upload some pictures I took.