I think that's a reasonable hypothesis, but I don't think the facts bear it out. You may be underestimating just how powerful an influence on human psychology social pressure is. These security forces have to face a community after they get off work, and accumulated condemnation
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And were the counter protests entirely peaceful, they'd still be demonizing us somehow. See how Kapernick was lambasted. Governments, at least these governments, and the media are not on our side, by and large, at least not when certain interests begin to be threathened..
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On the contrary, their interests are better served by portraying any and all dissent, indifferent to context, as a negative moral absolute. Which is why agent provocateurs (shown below provoking cops and then making arrests) were effective dissuading protests in my country.pic.twitter.com/7RKuk5GPOS
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