“Nobody minds peaceful protest,”

Yeah, and nobody notices peaceful protests.

It appears that some governments are willing to violate human rights to prevent “organized individuals who have undertaken criminal activity to intimidate, to attack police, to break personal property.” It is also not acceptable to intimidate protest organizers with threats of unlawful surveillance and maybe even preemptive arrest.

Civil disobedience does not mean always obeying the law, it often involves breaking the law and accepting the consequences of your actions. Key, disobedience means not obeying.

To get the changes needed sometimes you have to break some eggs.

How can we be expected to act when law enforcement breaks the law and the courts don’t rein them in? If prosecutors look the other way, juries can’t convict the guilty.

The populus has an obligation to disobey unjust laws but law enforcement does not have the right to disobey the law to stop civil disobedience.

The rulers might want law enforcement to put down protest with extreme prejudice, but law enforcement must prosecute all law breakers, civilian and police alike.

Law enforcement does not get a pass regarding violations of the law.

The Blue Line should not be protecting law breaking law enforcement it should be protecting the people.

I fear the fox is guarding the hen house.

TEK