Well, they mainly WERE peaceful protests. The police weren't defunded. And BLM weren't the folks that KR shot.
So how does your post make any sense?
Seattle CHOP/CHAZ, Portland Riots, Minneapolis come to mind. Dozens of burned buildings, businesses destroyed and looted, people dead. Sure, call them mostly peaceful if you'd like. Some of us can see and think ourselves, not listen to a CNN reporter who's standing in front of a burning building, calling it "mostly peaceful protest".
New York, Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis just as example. Cops were treated like trash while they were beaten, injured, insulted, arrested. New York slashed police funds by half IIRC.
In Atlanta 2 cops were arrested for doing their job. They arrested a drunk driver Rayshard Brooks who resisted, fought with them, shot a taser at them and was killed for it. Cops were immediately fired by Democratic Mayor who didn't even wait for dust to settle while a POS hypocrite AG pressed charges. (2 weeks prior he fired 6 Atlanta police officers for using a taser which is considered a deadly weapon in the State of Georgia, but when a drunk convict shot it at cops, it wasn't a deadly weapon anymore).
Cops were discouraged from doing their duty throughout US. Many lost their jobs, pension. Then, when a riot happens, you wonder why they are staying put and not interfering.
And it goes on, and on, and on... and you still only see what you want to see.