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Friday's protests would have been more or less ordinary compared to the many other stories across the country, of communities coming together denouncing raids and demanding release of immigrants detained for various reasons.
What made this one special is that Trump raised the stakes when he decided to call the National Guard against it. The newsworthy headlines were:
Whereas the grafitti and individual confrontations within the crowd didn't get much attention, so those sorts of actions didn't serve a purpose besides turning attitudes negatively. Chances the people doing that were provocateurs or people that wanted chaos more than to support the cause of immigrants or resistance of fascism.
Thought experiment: if protestors were more violent in LA this weekend such that a couple cops had died, would that have been any better?
I don't like cops but I say no, it would have been much worse. Media got so sad over those poor autonomous cars, that a dead cop would have been the only headline coming out of that, resulting in more of a crackdown from the city and more of a copaganda stance from the mayor and Governor. Trump would bring tanks and stuff down Alameda, we're all worse off. Showing up but staying peaceful is a call on Trump's bluff.