Well I do know in Canada that what is deemed to be violence is in the eye of the authoritarian beholder —-Derailing trains and setting hundreds and hundreds of churches on fire and assaulting white people is a kosher protest, but standing in the street and honking your horn is a dangerous emergency requiring perpetrators & their supporters to have their bank accounts shut down, money confiscated, be trampled on by horses, and contemplate some jail time. Maybe more guns is the right idea.