I’m sure you actually do understand the difference right? In one case you have a group of people taking advantage of protests to engage in criminal theft that

I’m sure you actually do understand the difference right? In one case you have a group of people taking advantage of protests to engage in criminal theft that is divorced from the reason for the protest. In the other the point of the protest was to disrupt the orderly transfer of power. The violence, looting etc were a mechanism to accomplish that goal. We wouldn’t include looters using the protests at the capital as cover for breaking into a mall in the capital protests anymore than we’d forgive a BLM protest that’s stated goal was disrupting general policing by starting a violent riot.