adocs,
This question is directed at anyone who supports these protests.
I have no idea what the protests are about, so I cannot answer whether I “support” them or not. Is it not possible, however, for someone to support a cause but not violence supposedly in the name of that cause?
I just want to know…i clearly saw someone kicking the woman. What is the heter for any physical contact with that woman?
Do you think that a bank robber sees himself as relying on a heter? Why would you assume a criminal cares one iota for halacha?