[marcinzm]

Peaceful protests and rallies are generally legally protected by the first amendment. Just because you don't like what some group is saying doesn't mean the police get to illegally attack and disperse them. These rights exists so that minorities can protect themselves from the tyranny of the majority which is exactly what is happening right now.

[jariel]

This is misleading.

You do not have the right to block traffic, march down the street etc. as an expression of your 1st amendment rights. You literally need a permit for most of that.

If the city puts down a curfew, you don't have any '1st Amendment rights' there either.

"doesn't mean the police get to illegally attack and disperse them."

Much of what we are seeing is not a legal expression of 1st Amendment rights at all, in which case breaking it up is not remotely illegal.

Some of it may be though.

Here are the ACLU's guidelines:

[1] https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_pdf_file/kyr_...

[gowld]

The legality of curfews against assembly and petition is absolutely not settled.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1206/curfews

[bluntfang]

>"doesn't mean the police get to illegally attack and disperse them."

>Much of what we are seeing is not a legal expression of 1st Amendment rights at all, in which case breaking it up is not remotely illegal.

Think about what you're doing right now. You're responding to someone saying that cops shouldn't be killing people in the streets for blocking traffic. Your response isn't "cops shouldn't kill people!". It's "what they are doing is illegal".

This about this. Think about what you're doing.