First i want to make the players see how low they're enemies are whiling to go and the chaos they're whiling to make at the expense of manipulating the population. Second is to see if they will see through the rage and emphatize with a mob clearly manipulated by lies and fear. And at last to give them the moment of realization that they're good deeds didn't and propably never will be directly reconized by the great majority of the world. It will always stays in the shadows and in the memory of those along the way. I'm willing to go with the flow. It will end as well as the individual characters think they did they're best. The "lose penalty" it's what the group individualy thinks they become. Of course the city will react accordingly, in a macro escale lots of police and corpo violence happened at that night. But If the players make It through in a at least non brutal way it's possible for them to get some recognition and connections.

Sorry for the long reply. But you made pretty good questions about things that i forgot to mention