The protest was until USCP fired on a peaceful crowd. They wanted the crowd to disperse. They are required to give verbal commands (three) over extremely loud audio to disperse or they will be fired upon. None of that happened until well into the event......there's even USCP audio of one officer saying 'you're firing on innocents'.It was manned by officers who were assaulted by the rioters and suffered injuries. They fell back to a more defensible position where they were continually assaulted by the rioters.
It wasn’t peaceful.
You really need to spend an hour and watch one of the J6 timeline of events video's......you won't, I know.