And any good lawyer will point out that when you are entering area that is clearly understood of the actions happening within (in this case, the snowball fight was publicly announced, this wasn'ta sudden "cops here, lets just start it now"), you are accepting of the assumed risks. In the case of a snowball fight, it is safe to assume that ice can sometimes get inside of a snowball, so they assumed the risk of this happening when they entered the publicly announced snowball fight.

Now, if there were rocks or other non-snow related objects, then you could make the argument you are trying here, but its not what happened.

See I had the same thought, its entirely possible that some people packed some extra hard snowballs and really put some heat on them just because they were cops.

There is a line, its possible that line was crossed.

There's video of it. Clearly it's snowballs.

If you think you have a point to make, don't couch it in "devil's advocate" bullshit. There were indeed huge chunks of ice being thrown. Blood were drawn. The cops are still the bastards in this situation, and I pray that nobody gets convicted

Devil’s advocate:

Stop.