How is it that the poor need protection from the rich? It seems to me, the most imminent danger to the poor is the government: it sends poor people, who don't h

How is it that the poor need protection from the rich? It seems to me, the most imminent danger to the poor is the government: it sends poor people, who don't have money for lawyers, to prison for victimless crimes; it violates their rights by spying on them, exercising unchecked force; it requires numerous expensive licences to start certain kinds of businesses poor people could start. Why would the poor need protection from the rich and from what kind of actions exactly?