Move along, citizen. Just another one of the fucknuts thinking ANTIFA is an org and not just cops setting fires in costume (while being recorded, like the tacticool rejects they are). Move along.
While I completely agree with your second paragraph and much of it deeply resonates with me, I gotta point out that "laid down their lives" is far too passive to describe what the average cop is doing at a scene like this.
Your own semantic challenges are not proof of any confusion within the linguistic system itself, and while I can understand the allure of conjuring lurid imagery, this query now edges toward masturbatory and I'll leave you to it.
Yeah, I was thinking a portemonteau, but that's incorrect