I'm not a usaian, and I don't really care who did this or why but:
"All Americans have the right to peaceful protest, but ugly attacks like this have no place in our democracy,"
Isn't this a peaceful prostest (factoring in here that the speaker almost certainly does not consider the insects harmed worthy of dignity and respect)? Obnoxious and weird sure but peaceful.
Fair, I mean similar stuff happens in aus but we're literally a prison colony of uptight dibber dobbers without even town squares lest uprising be facilitated. I thought you were calibrated the other way, like firing rounds up into the air is peaceful and civic jubilation :p
Guess power is the same everywhere. I do wish the media parroted this stuff less. Normalising disruption = violence is how the remnants of our liberties die.