Where is your evidence that any such crimes were “deliberated”? You speak as if that was The Only Obvious reason why protesters would make themselves difficult to identify. Are you not aware of organized campaigns by police and government operatives to entrap, harass, and otherwise implicate even peaceful protesters?
So if a nation-state is willing and able to play dirty to get protesters in trouble, what are some of the better strategies open to them? The obvious two are: 1. protest openly and hope for fair treatment, or 2. stop making waves so that you don’t get into trouble. Those are the options which LEOs and intelligence prefer. What they don’t like is for people to use the same tactics they do - to organize so that they can act without being compromised. To actually act as if they really are in occupied territory, where they cannot expect fair or humane treatment.
So by this reasoning, if we know that some police are attacking unarmed people, should we restrain only those witnessed carrying out those attacks - or be on the safe side and restrain all of them? Or would it be more reasonable to use double-standards here?
