How can I possibly be quibbling over the definition of violence since it is clearly defined in the law.
Because you are being disingenuous. My point is that the law, and the legal system, is being abused to punish conservatives per an evil leftist agenda, and your response is that the abuse and prosecutorial overreach is perfectly legitimate because it's the legal definition of "violence" that is being stretched.
You are quibbling just to promulgate the dishonest agenda. Only peaceful conservative protestors were investigated, arrested and imprisoned, under the auspices of "violence" committed by DNC operatives, infiltrators and instigators. None of those who actually committed violence were even investigated. None of those imprisoned were violent. The only Oct 6 crime punished by our now fully tyrannical 2-tier InJustice system was being an American patriot protesting the stolen election.
It is you that is violating your own argument by now claiming that what you admit was destruction of property isn't violence
I stand by my argument. The left are promulgating the narrative of "violence" meaning physical attacks, not of breaking furniture, loitering, entering a public building, etc. We then learn that none of the protestors were violent, that all they did was loiter, enter a public building, jump around a lot, shout a lot, etc. The left remain undeterred in their dishonesty and continue hammering away at their claims of "violence" against the police.
The left are the ones insisting that "violence" means violently aggressive assault/attacks ... but then want it to include breaking glass.
Show me a video of an arrested/imprisoned individual violently attacking law enforcement, and not simply trying to defend himself from overly zealous, attacking, law enforcement.
I see you have also decided to move the goalposts by now claiming that only violence against another person counts as violence.
That's the left's narrative, i.e. that the protesters attacked people. You went out of your way to present that very narrative. When you fell flat on your face you began quibbling over the definition of "violent" in order to water down the definition of discussion.
I never shifted goalposts; you did. You went to great mental gymnastics to portray a man pointing a stick as "doing a wind-up before striking police." You have been nothing but totally dishonest. As a final act of defiance, you began quibbling over the meaning of "violence", reducing it down to mere movement.
You aren't the first to claim heinous violence on the part of Jan 6 protesters and then be unable to support your claim, and you will not be the last. The dishonesty from the left is without limit.