> we don't have to say this is either protesting or rioting This is true. The problem is, no one is doing this WRT any of the "civil disturbances" that happene

> we don't have to say this is either protesting or rioting This is true. The problem is, no one is doing this WRT any of the "civil disturbances" that happened over the last few years. > this makes it easy to delegitimize any protest: send some looters Or anyone willing to make the protest cross the line from "peaceful" to "violent." Of course, these caveats can be just as easily applied to events in the midwest as to events in the capitol.