Everyone knows protests are only legitimate if they have significant corporate sponsorship and the full-throated support of prominent politicians and celebrities in the entertainment industry.
Hey, I was there. You were lied to when you got reports of 'the violence and chaos and rioters', I know this because I got a call from my grandmother worried I might be near the war zone.
Oh, unless the violence you are referring to was the tear gassing from cops. There was a shit ton of that.
Multiple people were killed at CHAZ in Seattle and the organizer of that insurrection (which was as close to the dictionary definition of an insurrection as they come) suffered no legal consequences and is now selling T-shirts.
You call that "state resistance"?