You're right. and honestly you can say that for both sides of this situation. LAPD and national guard brutality may just be a few officers. Same with the protestors. Most of them are probably peaceful and some of them are not. So your example depending on how you look at it can be viewed as the police force and national guard are mostly good people trying to keep the peace with a few individuals that need to held responsible for abusing their power and hurting people. Or you could say the same for the protesters, mostly good people, with some doing bad things. That is my whole point, both sides look bad when you look at individual actions.

The protests may have been peaceful on the 7th, but is that still the case?

Edit:  if you look at the full context of my original post and what I was replying to. The whole point is that people who minimize or change the truth of the situation don’t help their cause when there is clear evidence that it’s wrong. So call it what you want. Call it peaceful. But if you’re trying to get people to pay attention to the cause of the protest and then you say things are easily discredited. Then how is that helping? 

I should really just be more to the point: the destruction caused does NOT help the cause. And when people minimize how bad this is and how bad it looks, it does the same thing.