It's every person's right to break the law on purpose as an act of civil disobedience. It's also the right of the people who enforce the laws to do so. You can't say that they didn't know what the hell they were doing. They were told they were breaking the law by blocking roads without a permit. It's not anyone's right to disrupt the city, and the protesters damn well know that. That's why it's called civil disobedience. They knew exactly what they were doing. The only right they were exercising was that of breaking the law to make a point. They did, and they got the reaction that they set out to get.
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