Violent protest doesn’t ask for permission—neither mine nor yours. It doesn’t need our permission. Nor does it want our permission. When lives are at stake, permission is just another form of oppression, and protest--violent AND peaceful--seeks and serves to end that oppression. To remove the foot—or knee—that was so violently placed on the collective neck of the oppressed. The oppressor never asks permission to hurt, maim, rape, asphyxiate, or murder the oppressed, so why do we keep insisting that the oppressed seek the approval of their oppressors? Again, you know the answer to that question.