As that population rises up to reclaim their society, (usually the young people who have not been complicit for so long they do not know how to not be) as is their *right*, the neofascists turn to "less lethal" suppression force, sending police to destroy the city, blame the people, and try to trick everyone into giving them continued control.
IN the US, it's both Republicans and Democrats that do this, a fact that liberals and Dem partisans literally can't even hear without going redfaced.
2/