For a redress of grievances. First amendment. We are talking about people carrying flags and signs and posters. Marching in daylight, down routes coordinated with local authorities. Singing and chanting. Making speeches. Listening to speeches. Dispersing and going home when the demo is over. That’s peaceable assembly.
Riots are something else. Breaking shop windows, looting, setting fires, throwing stuff at cops. We citizens expect law enforcement to break them up, suppress them. Surround them; arrest a bunch of ‘em. Use fire hoses and tear gas on em. Keep them from destroying our livelihoods. Authorities that permit, or worse encourage, law enforcement to shirk their duty should be turned out of office at the next election. Or impeached immediately.
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