Threats To Protest

In recent years, with the increasing protests against various things including but not limited to police brutality, immigration policies, the supreme court, offensive historical symbols, gun safety, racial injustice, and women's reproductive rights, there has also been an increase in violent conflict between police and protesters. Videos circling the internet of police in riot gear interrupting a violin vigil to violent dispersals of tear gas onto crowds that had been peaceful only minutes before police involvement. The government has shown fear of people protesting and so has made many decisions to militarize protest management and to draft legislation to limit the legality of protests. This is completely unconstitutional and is a violation of the right to protest. They use language like "police intervention to prevent the devolvement of a protest into a riot" to police every protest and to shut any protest down because of the fear of a riot occurring.