I think we can completely agree on this point.

I agree that it is a false dichotomy: I want the same thing in both cases, for police who do wrong to face consequences for their actions, and for rioters who do wrong to face consequences for their actions.

My badly made comic was in response to another one asking why 2a folks didn't come out and shoot cops when rioters were getting arrested, link is in the comments here. The point isn't that we should be arresting all protesters, it's that when rioters are committing crimes, getting arrested isn't a violation of rights, it's the protection of rights.

The political establishment refusing to protect those rights is itself an injustice, and I'd love to see qualified immunity go away so the victims of these crimes can directly sue them for their intentional dereliction of duty for solely political purposes.

In my city there were peaceful protests, and while I didn't agree with everything they said I support their right to say it. I believe the police were there to make sure everything went well but there wasn't any sort of problem whatsoever with either group. Hard to imagine that it was months ago.

Lately I've been finding that discussing this sort of stuff and fitting my different thoughts together on paper has helped me understand where I'm coming from, and our discussion here has helped me realize a lot about myself.