Yes, I know since I was part of the protests back then. But there's an incredibly big difference between cracking down on a protest and invoking emergency powers.

Where? In my city the government paid to have Black Lives Matter written on the streets in paint and then arrested people for driving over it...

Symbolic actions like painting "BLM" on a street are cute and all, but that doesn't mean they supported the protests. In fact, the cities such as New York and Chicago had some of the most violent suppression of protests by their police forces, despite loudly claiming to support BLM. Actions ultimately speak louder than words.

Read for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incide...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests#United_S...

> At least 200 cities in the U.S. had imposed curfews by early June 2020, while more than 30 states and Washington, D.C., activated over 96,000 National Guard and State Guard service members.[33][34][35][36] The deployment constituted the largest military operation other than war in U.S. history.[37]

That seems pretty outlandish. Are you able to provide a source for that?