What peaceful protestors are you talking about? In Charlottesville?
There were none. Both sides went into this knowing full well what the outcome would be.
Did they? One party had a federal court order to hold a parade or sit in or whatever. One party didn’t.
Now, 2 months ago, on May 13, a similar gathering of some maybe 200 folks had the very same intent to demonstrate in the very exact same town. Which they did - and even had their little tiki light march, just like last Saturday night. From what I can tell from youtube, (and there’s not much on youtube about it) they did their thing and then went home. I don’t recall reading about any riots in May. Certainly no videos.
So why should there have been riots in August? What changed the dynamic?