If the police is though on peaceful protestors they'll turn into violent protestors.
it's funny because last month I've read Malm's how to blow up a pipeline a book where, considering that peaceful actions doesn't work he calls for violent protest regarding climate.
Indeed, this is an important point, when talking about violence, he talks mostly about attacking equipement owned by fossilf-fuel companies so mostly victimless violence not about performing a Luigi Mangione