One of the reasons not to hold up non-violence as the ultimate ideal for protesters is that it prevents an intelligent and moral debate within the movement about the rules of engagement *for* the use of force.
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I think Beaufre's thinking on Indirect Strategy is actually a pretty helpful way to think about demonstrations against a liberal regime, because it functions much like a proxy war - one side has effectively infinite force, but lacks the freedom of action (sometimes) to use it.
In that kind of space, the "exterior maneuver" (in Beaufre's terms) - the action to manipulate the extent of freedom of action - matters more than the interior maneuver - any action taken within the zone of conflict to directly further this or that aim.