No...we don't. This I'm assuming is showing someone who's idea of protesting is burning cars and businesses down.

You should take the same precautions in most european countries too, cops here are known to identify protesters and randomly raid their homes or arrest protesters under false pretense

I live in Canada and there is a university professor that had police visit his house because he took some pictures of an oil project that was being protested while he was on a walking trail near the university.

It was an interview on the cbc several years ago. He was a prof at SFU, I assume it was the trans mountain pipeline expansion.

That's because people in the US don't protest for real, since it's totally toothless there's not much crackdown either

I think it depends on the protest, a little bit, but that's generally the case in Canada, too.

I counter-protested anti-SOGI assholes (didn't want 2SLGBTQ+ taught in schools) and it was completely fine. I brought my 5 y.o.

It depends on the situation and the policing body.

It depends on the issue, time of day, and local cops. In San Diego a pro Palestinian march was allowed to go around and the cops mostly stayed away except for helping to block a few intersections.

In San Francisco they decided it was fine to pull anyone they thought was associated out of their cars and arrest them.

So as general advice, yeah. Especially if the police are the subject of the protest. They take that personally and you'll have to figure out how to deal with rubber bullets and tear gas

I dont think so, I only see normally dressed people in major protests. People like this are usually doing something bad. Makes me think of the alt right tbh.

It probably also depends on whether you are just holding a sign or straight up rioting.