Your comment about the psyop coin reminded me of something I have been telling friends for some time. I always called it my Tinfoil Hat Theory, but given the events recently, I am no longer sure its really that Tinfoil.

Here is the SF Bay Area, we have had a group that comes out during protests and purposefully does damage to property and the like. During Occupy, they smashed and destroyed even while the vast, vast majority of protestors were peaceful and trying to get their point across/make their voices heard. This happened again with the protests in Berkeley against the Alt Right speakers and whatnot. The group has been called Black Bloc for a time, but I am not so sure they are the same.

It struck me, while watching from the office I had in DT Oakland at the time, the individuals who were doing the damage always dressed the same. They always showed up and no one knew who they were among the local activists and the local populace. They were almost always young white men (I'm whetto myself, so don't get the wrong idea). They often did damage and then encouraged others to do the same: they seemed to be be clueful as to how to manipulate a "mob." When caught, they were called anarchists and whatnot, but...here's where we go into my maybe Tinfoil Hat Territory:

Their actions always put a significant taint on the protests. This stain was always played up on TV, esp FoxNews. There are few ways to discredit a movement or a group of people or protestors in the American media than through portraying them as violent. And these men did a great job of providing it. Perhaps that was exactly the job they were paid to do.

I had thought it was nutty and cynical. Then with everything that has been coming out about the 2016 election, I'm not so sure anymore.