luthervol
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A little.But you can see why your % is questioned? If 3 businesses on a block put up a BLM sign, that by definition is 3 peaceful protests, if Jesse Jackson holds a press conference and uses the term BLM that's a peaceful protest. Hell of 3 people called in sick to work on the same day and previously wore BLM gear, that's a peaceful protest.
By those standards how many KKK meetings were peaceful protests? See the problem?
But actually what I read said that 5 separate protests in the same city just blocks apart would be counted as 1. So the opposite of your claim would be true in some cases.
There is no getting around the fact that counting protests and protestors is an inexact science at best.
But the more data you study, the more it becomes clear that the overall claim of the vast majority being peaceful is indeed true. (and few to none of those counted protests would be of groups smaller than "dozens".)