Worse still, it wasn’t until someone rich or famous enough got his rights violated that it even went to court with a good enough lawyer so as to get noticed by a judge in the first place.

This. Then again it’s also a solid argument to continue peaceful and polite protests so that core issues aren’t lost when everything devolves into a food fight, and so that people like this aren’t handed this excuse and instead have to rationalize their ideology based on actual things that matter.

We outnumber them.