Peaceful protests without the threat of escalation are 5Ks with signs. A group that is willing to literally burn it all down is the living proof that what your

Peaceful protests without the threat of escalation are 5Ks with signs. A group that is willing to literally burn it all down is the living proof that what your actions/policies have done made it so they have nothing to lose. If you're willing to install an authoritarian regime over everyone in your country to snuff out who you consider to be rebels you've become the empire. You don't have to cave to their demands, and it's expected that the powers that be will try to arrest them but the rioters are assumed to be desperate, the standing government is held to a higher standard.