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Overview
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An interesting concept, with intriguing visuals.
Unfortunately, the game mechanics are sloppy, non-responsive garbage, and seem heavily dependant on RNG factors.
This game would be better off as either a protesters vs. police themed UEBS (Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator) or a screensaver/desktop background for something like Wallpaper Engine.

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Details
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For some reason, protesters are far more motivated and capable of charging a wall of shields, batons and aggression than they are trying to get past a few scattered cops with single-shot teargas launchers and little else.

There might be massive gaps between the ballistics police that any person with half and brain and a pair of legs could WALK through, or around, yet the protesters will instead flee and completely ignore anything you tell them to do. If you play like 4 missions, you'll quickly get to this point, and be unable to proceed any further. You can go full defensive, you can go full offensive, you can go full passivity, or full violence, it doesn't matter.

The devs explain that when the game "becomes too difficult" that you just need to go back and replay the previous missions over and over "with different strategies" to boost your "publicity advantage".

Despite being unable to unlock any of these "different strategies" (because you can't complete that one awful mission), you roll your eyes and replay the previous missions a few more times as recommended.

But then, irrespective of completing the previous missions repeatedly with "perfect victory" being the result for each instance, the aforementioned "publicity advantage" will instead DECREASE, making it even LESS likely for you to complete that one mission.

I'm assuming you just need to keep replaying that same terrible mission over and over until the RNG is in your favor, but why bother? If you're relying so much on RNG in a game to determine the outcome of action, instead of conscious decisions or strategy, it may as well be a simulation, not a game.

You can keep spamming hotkeys and repeatedly ordering your groups to move or act, and they'll just ignore you or any actual opportunities to be of any use, simply because there is some arbitrary or vaporous instruction in the background keeping you from proceeding unless you're boosting play time statistics.

On top of the nonsensical instructions and game mechanics, the UI is also poorly executed. The lack of responsiveness both in-game and in-menu is frustrating. Having to wait 5 minutes for the game to tally my score at the end of every match, without being able to skip or speed up the process, is just stupid.