Party CrashersThe peace-loving, road-blocking, window-smashing protesters at the RNC.

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I finally spot four members of my group—that's how I think of them—sitting against a wall, lying low. I ask them if it's over. "It's not over," one says. But they look tired. They don't know where everyone went. Plus, classes start tomorrow. I ask if they saw the people breaking windows. They say that's not what they came to do. They just wanted to block a few intersections. "No matter what I do now," a girl says, "I'll be associated with that."

Apparently destroying cop cars had not been a group decision.

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Christopher Beam is a Slate political reporter. Follow him on Twitter.

Photograph of broken window by Max Whittaker/Getty Images.

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