The alternatives are the police tasing portestors, the police shooting portestors, the military bombing portestors... If you want to protest "police brutality"

The alternatives are the police tasing portestors, the police shooting portestors, the military bombing portestors... If you want to protest "police brutality" or an "oppressive regime", you might as well sit there and take it, as long as you make sure to get recorded by some journalists, and hope for public opinion to support you. At least you maybe won't die, which is better than the alternatives.