I was talking to the wife last night and we discussed the fact that in general people have built a comfortable veneer of kindness around themselves. One where people deal with each other with respect and integrity. Due to distance/neighborhoods/friendship circles we fail to realize that there is a not small percentage of the population to which violence is a valid means of advancement. Not only valid, often celebrated. Their ability to cause others pain for personal benefit is not a moral issue, but a sign of strength and competence in their circle.
What we are seeing, more and more, is a clash between those who actually feel their neighbors are all as nice as they are coming into direct contact with those who have zero ramifications for causing pain to get their way. We have even seen it >inside< these events where "woke" participants have jumped in to help, only to find themselves on the wrong end of a curb stomping, theft, or destruction of their own property.
Sadly, there is no negotiating with this level of what we would consider depravity, only meeting violence with decisive action.
Do not get out of your car.
Do not stop your car.
Do not open the door.
Do not attend a rally thinking "They will embrace me because I want to help them!"
Do not attempt to roadside reason with them.
Avoid, evade, escape. And do absolutely whatever you have to do to make it happen. If it can be done with no one getting hurt, but if someone is to get hurt take the needed steps to ensure that its the other guy and his tribe.