Talk:Ezekiel Lasius/@comment-5431934-20131130062807/@comment-4773581-20131130095920

For the record, they disrupted the protest, not attacked it. If one had to guess, they most likely caused a disruption by using the protestors as cover and then getting violent on the humans that were being protested at rather than the protestors themselves.

So, given the choice of words from both sides concerning the incident in question, as well as the wording in the episode, Raga's technically right. The WF don't attack protests. They just disrupt them by being violent towards whatever's being protested. At least, this is the most logical assumption given the wording used in the episode. There's no real reason to use "disrupted" if they outright attacked the protest, after all. The latter implies the former, but the former does not imply the latter.

That said, changing "attacked" to "disrupted" really doesn't change the backstory too drastically. It just alters the targets of the WF's agressions from the protestors to the protested. Which it should be, since directly attacking faunus protestors en masse would basically be like the WF bowing down to the vastly superior humans and cutting down anyone who disagreed with the rule of their human overlords. Which is, in itself, about as far from the WF's ideology as you could get. Unless the protest was a protest aimed at the WF, in which case that should be mentioned somewhere.

TLDR; "attacking" and "disrupting" a protest are two entirely different things, and the latter was what the WF were stated to have done.