text: Okay. I watched the video too. I empathized with Strickland for a moment too. He obviously has loads of mental health issues and no doubt those issues were being exasperated by the crowd via whatever verbal and or physical threats that began before the filming began. (Side note: I don't go to these rallies even though I support the causes because the masked anarchists with their raw physicality and verbal prowess scare me almost more than the evil-doing being done that we're protesting about). As someone else said up above there somewhere in the comments, toward the end of the video some white folks do try to get verbally aggressive with the camera man, and a couple of other black folk do appear to be physically posturing towards Strickland. These things made me uncomfortable on behalf of Strickland. I wanted everyone to leave him the eff alone, for their sake and his. BUT YOU DONT BRING THAT MUCH AMMO WITHOUT PREMEDITATION! End of story. Everyone--Strickland included--got lucky.