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Some protests should not be peaceful.
I, for one, don't intend to let the fifth biggot who threatens me directly, to walk away. Maybe run. Maybe limp. Maybe I plead self defence with no helpful media coverage.
What are you doing to help? It's okay if you want to focus on soup and bailfunds, but pacifism has failed to save us from preditory governance for 50 years in the u.s.a.
Stonewall was a riot started by a police raid on a social club.