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Fine for you, I guess. Not fine for the other people present who don’t want things to escalate that way.
A person being violent is not forcing everyone in the vicinity to be violent.
A "protest marshal" corraling someone for the police is an attempt to force them to be nonviolent.
Do you understand the difference here in terms of autonomy and coercion?
You probably have "but the media will smear everyone as being violent" up your sleeve. Sure, that can and will happen. A corollary of this is that they don't even need any real material; cops could send anyone in to throw hands or rocks and invoke the same media treatment on a 100% peaceful protest.