Turn On the News, Any Channel and see Protests, Teargas, Riots and Batons…

I turn on the news, watch legal protests stopped, protestors beaten, dispersed, switch channels, people abducted by camouflaged men and thrown in unmarked vans see protests, fires, looting not far away, families with children, strollers went home earlier, remaining protesters chant shout hurl insults at police, the man, choke hold, George Floyd, “I can’t breathe”, “hands up don’t shoot,” switch channels again, Black Lives Matter, equal rights, teens set off fireworks maybe given from cops before protest began, to cause trouble, chaos, switch again, militarized police, riot armor, behind shields provoke the crowd, a plastic water bottle is thrown at police, their excuse to move in, attack protesters with batons, teargas, flash-bangs, and rubber bullets to disperse people from their legal protest, a founding principle, a core tenet, the right to peaceably assemble, easy for police ignore because they can, switch, unmarked vans pull up, men in camouflage get out, grab someone off street, throw them into van and drive off, abducting an innocent citizen, maybe a bystander, switch, another city, another protest, protesters block interstate, traffic backed up for miles, protests are good, wherever possible, a civic…