A Sunday showdown between anti-fascists and the Proud Boys in Salem turned into a familiar feud between the police and the ski-masked provocateurs who want them abolished.

The protest that kicked off the afternoon began much like others in Salem as a crowd of anti-fascists and Black Lives Matter activists huddled around the Capitol building. Absent were the mobs of Proud Boys and Trump supporters who have emerged as violent antagonists in past years. Instead, the scene was of some 100 protesters clad in black egging and paint-balling a small convoy of the Proud Boys who passed through the Capitol mall on their way to an event that never materialized.