WATCH: Protesters at DC parade justify violent tactics 'as long as they don't hurt anyone'

Protesters extracurricular Saturday's subject parade successful the nation's superior did not explicitly condemn the convulsive tactics utilized astatine anti-Trump protests crossed the state successful caller days, with astatine slightest 1 saying helium "fully support[s]" the caller tactics utilized by protesters successful Los Angeles, specified arsenic throwing rocks.

"I’m pursuing my constitutional rights, I’m retired present conscionable simply saying what I privation to feel. No 1 present is being violent. As you tin see, there’s been nary conflict," said a college-aged protester who declined to place himself but spoke to Fox News Digital.

"But you’re not disquieted astir being conflated with those who are doing violence?" the activistic was asked. 

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"I mean if they privation to interruption the Constitution, that’s connected them. I can’t interest astir that," the protester responded. "I mean, possibly I should [be worried], but I judge successful this Constitution, I’m going to unrecorded by it, I’m going to enactment my First Amendment."

Burned-out Waymo cars enactment the thoroughfare successful Los Angeles, Monday, June 9, 2025. The vehicles were acceptable blaze by rioters. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

A abstracted protester successful attendance extracurricular Saturday's parade said helium "fully supported" those activists who "want to propulsion rocks" arsenic agelong arsenic they don't wounded anyone successful the process.

"Honestly – they person a close to beryllium angry. They person a close to bash what they consciousness similar they request to bash to halt this issue, to halt fascism," helium said. "And, honestly, I afloat enactment that. I afloat enactment if they’re aggravated and they privation to spell retired and they privation to throw rocks. As agelong arsenic they don’t wounded anyone, you know, I tin understand, I tin honestly do."

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A instrumentality enforcement serviceman works to enactment retired a occurrence during a protestation successful Compton, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2025, aft national migration authorities conducted operations. (Ethan Swope)

The anti-Trump protests that coincided with the subject parade successful D.C. connected Saturday saw a fewer isolated incidents of unit but appeared mostly peaceful. However, the play was preceded by convulsive riots successful Los Angeles that dispersed to different cities similar New York and Chicago – reminiscent of the anti-police protests pursuing the decease of Minneapolis antheral George Floyd successful the summertime of 2020. 

Protesters successful Los Angeles threw rocks astatine instrumentality enforcement and respective fires crossed the metropolis erupted amid the chaos. There were reports of harm to national buildings, including both immigration and non-immigration-related offices, that included graffiti threatening the lives of national officials. At slightest 1 assemblage attraction bureau for veterans, tally by the Department of Veterans Affairs, was forced to unopen down and cancel hundreds of appointments amid the violence. Many were arrested for clashing with constabulary and the reverberations of the rioting person resulted successful different tense clashes betwixt constabulary and activists crossed the country.

While nary deaths person been straight attributed to governmental unit astatine caller protests crossed the country, including Los Angeles, fatalities person occurred astatine immoderate protests astir the country. In Utah, an guiltless bystander was changeable by a antheral who had been a portion of the protest's peacekeeping team, according to reports, portion successful Los Angeles a antheral was recovered dormant extracurricular a looted T-Mobile store amid the anti-ICE chaos, according to reports.  

The peaceful protesters successful D.C. suggested they were not successful favour of immoderate violence, but they did awesome that they understood wherefore protests successful caller days crossed the state person been truthful aggravated that they pb to unit against police officers, spot and sometimes more. 

"I mean, I personally won’t bash that, but I tin recognize aft each of this, like, radical are fed up. People are fed up with however the authorities has been treating people," a protester told Fox News Digital Saturday. "The Republicans, the radical successful Congress, they bash not attraction astir radical here, and truthful I tin recognize wherefore radical are that aggravated to bash thing similar that, so, yeah, I afloat understand."

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Anti-Trump demonstrators astatine a subject parade sermon law rights to protestation and their knowing of wherefore immoderate protests crossed the state turned violent. (FOX NEWS/Getty Images)

"I deliberation it’s incorrect to make violence, but, like, helium said, I mean I deliberation radical person been aggravated for a agelong time," a 2nd protester added, noting helium thinks Trump is the crushed to blasted for each the assertive tactics, similar throwing rocks, mounting fires and vandalism. 

"What Trump is doing, helium knows the polarization and the choler he’s causing, truthful this is each portion of his crippled plan. The National Guard successful L.A., helium caused that. He said spell retired determination without Newsom saying anything. I mean, helium knows what he’s doing, helium wants to origin a emergence retired of people." 

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Another protester contiguous Saturday, who spoke to Fox News Digital, said she believed "being abrasive" is against the interests of those seeking to marque alteration but that "history has proven that sometimes aggression is needed."

"All respect to them, I deliberation that they are doing what they deliberation is right, but I deliberation being precise abrasive is against our interests, actually. I deliberation it drives distant a batch of people, it doesn’t truly foster the conversations that we need," a protester who identified herself arsenic Sophie said. "I don’t deliberation being assertive is the mode to go, but I deliberation past has proven that sometimes aggression is needed, so, but I don’t privation to beryllium abrasive."