This COVID year
plus has been a time of lockdowns and
social distancing. However, along the way, people have been out in
public, without necessarily social distancing, and
protesting-vociferously and publicly, and, in some instances, as a
part of larger riots, destruction of property, injury to others,
and challenges to the political bodies in power. The 24/7 news
cycle has both regaled and alarmed us with stories about the George
Floyd and the U.S. Capitol protests. Wherever one is on the
political spectrum, both examples have involved cries of free
speech; various people shroud these events with sanctified
protection under the First Amendment to the Constitution-protection
United-states
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Americans