Apparently that's no longer the point of civil disobedience:
On a night when the Bloomington City Council passed a proclamation honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., council members were urged to live up to King’s vision of justice.The way to honor Dr. King is to accept the path he chose. "Free at last" never meant free of consequence. King understood that.
About 100 people packed the council chamber Monday night, many of them urging leniency for leaders of Black Lives Matter, the local group that organized a pre-Christmas protest at the Mall of America on the heels of nationally publicized incidents involving the deaths of young black men in confrontations with police.
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There is a difference between challenging the authority of the state and challenging its conciounse.(spell check,please...).
Another part of classic civil disobedience is that you protested people who had actually done you a real harm, not innocent parties. One's conscience (there ya go, Gino) shouldn't be quiet if one ignores this principle.
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