Governments everywhere are going with the new definition of anti-government protest: "It is only a good protest if you are doing it alone, quietly and on your private property". Unless you are doing BDS, then even just quietly not buying a product can be a crime.
https://twitter.com/arusbridger/status/1686005285175885825
Violence it is then.
May as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb.
Yeah this is remarkably short-sighted on their part. It's not like anyone has ever been radicalized in prison, right?
For every armed revolutionary shot to death, along with even a civilian sympathizer, many more come to fill in that role.