There was a color revolution going on with a smaller group of students taking the opportunity to try and protest from the left, but as a whole there was brutal riots across the city were armed rioters lynched and burned police officers alive and displayed their mutilated corpses, as well as stealing APCs and firing machine guns wildly, not to mention the usage of smuggled guns which were even present inside the square.

Like this is a bad uninformed take, the CPC handled the situation in the most efficient way they could and without intentionally harming people that were no threat, like the students in the square or tank man.