[vlads_]

> The crowd has been otherwise quite peaceful exercising their first amendment right.

Not going to lie, this actually made me laugh[1].

Other than that, you missed my point entirely. When a policeman calmly explains to you that you are not allowed to be in a particular area for 10 mintues and the whole crowd screams in disapproval and refuses to leave, so the police use force to remove the crowd, and someone tapes a 30 second clip of this, you can see how you can get the wrong impression.

Maybe the portestors are in the right and their presence is protected by the first amendment, but that's a whole different story. It'd also be a different story if they weren't allowed to protest at all, but they are. Just not absolutely whenever and wherever they want.

Is that the story behind every single one of these instances? Of course not. But I'd wager it's the story behind a vast majority of them. Unfortunately, there is no way to know if I'm right or not, as these clips do not provide any insight into that. Just senzationalism.

[1]: https://youtu.be/QjnMuujUGq8

[TeaDrunk]

It's still correct the vast majority of the protests are peaceful.

[vlads_]

And the vast majority of policemen are not beating people up.