Matt Blaze@mattblaze@federate.social
A non-trivial minority of Americans believe that protest is always illegitimate, and that police use of force against protestors is inherently justified. This is a failure of civics education, but it's been clearly with us throughout at least my lifetime. No matter how "perfect" the victim may be, those whose positions have metastasized this way will never be convinced.
That does not mean that protest is futile, only that we should expect that some people won't be reached by it.