Good point.
If you or I attacked the police you can sure they would make us dead.
Why aren’t police shooting them?
The rioters are members of a protected species.
While they are not on the Endangered Species List, there are a protected species. And if certain individuals, the police for one and a Citizen defending themselves from one of their criminal acts, hurts their feelings, let alone injures or kills one of them. Said individual will suffer dire consequences from the Government.