There is a possibly apocryphal story about that. The story is that when Neville Chamberlin met with Hitler to hammer out his "peace for our time" Munich agreement they chatted about Ghandi. Hitler says, "This Ghandi fellow who is causing so much trouble, why don't you just kill him?"

The point is, non-violent resistance against government works only when your side controls the flow of propaganda to the populace AND your opponents are not criminal sociopaths.

Or ask the J6 political prisoners how non-violent resistance worked out for them.