A very original way to protest

Tell that to some of the occupy Wallstreet protesters who were sitting down arms locked together and a officer casually walks by an pepper sprayed them

But police could do the same thing. I've seen time when the riot police are just sitting there making sure things don't out of hand or trying to get groups that could get violent to disperse, and someone decides to throw a brick at them.

Yes there's both sides but I was giving you an example of what has happened when you said everything should be fine....