Protests are nothing new here in the US. Many of them have, in recent years, been relatively peaceful. However, sometimes sensitive social issues are aggravated, or a peaceful protest is antagonized in such a way as to anger the participants. In either of these situations, what was once a peaceful protest can quickly devolve into an unlawful assembly. California Penal Code 408 PC defines an unlawful assembly as two or more people assembling for the purpose of: doing something illegal or doing...