It gets ugly because it has snowballed - from the very moment the first officers were hit with buckets of water - to laughter.
This is part of the problem, Kid, and a big part.
To
you it wasn't ugly until then.
To the protesters, to me, to hundreds of thousands of others, if not millions, in this country, it has been ugly for a long long time and the fact that it only looks ugly to you when the officers are hit with water and laughter speaks volumes.