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Civil disobedience is encouraging the state to use violence against you, but not all protest is civil disobedience.

Getting large groups of people together to chant in common cause can easily be just about showing solidarity around a common cause. People out in the streets today aren't trying to get police to abuse them. They're trying to show the world this is something they care about.

>>ianfer+(OP)
Which further reinforced my opinion, I think.

Why beat the crap out of someone for saying I believe x? It's antithetical to the American spirit, I think.