Cops shooting crowds of protesters used to be considered really really bad in this country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_S...s#Legal_action

Some of the Guardsmen on Blanket Hill, fearful and anxious from prior events, may have believed in their own minds that their lives were in danger. Hindsight suggests that another method would have resolved the confrontation. Better ways must be found to deal with such a confrontation.