I hope you're able to draw a distinction between protests of the public near a state park and through native land against a company and their pipeline which is

I hope you're able to draw a distinction between protests of the public near a state park and through native land against a company and their pipeline which is inherently an issue of public land usage and environmental concerns and some thief rummaging through your garage. It should be very obvious why that is a bad faith comparison. The right of the public to protest and protect their land, in a democracy at least, holds quite some value, and furthermore in a democracy the police answers to the people and citizens it serves, in this case native people, they should not have the oil company CEO on speed dial.