A protest doesn't always become a riot, and a riot isn't always an insurrection. You seem to conflate them, I'm guessing purposely. You claimed it was a protest. Only the change the wording to riot when pressed. Why use the word protest at all when you mean riot? I'll tell you. It's an attempt to put as benign word on something in order to minimize it. That's why I responded.
Don't get me wrong I understand why you do it. And it works both ways, because in all honesty I don't know if you would characterize Jan 6th as a riot or an insurrection. I could easily defend both arguments.
But to me it misses the point, again, I suspect purposefully. (Not by you necessarily but by those information sources that give context to your beliefs) See, as long as we are squabbling over the precise semantics to describe Jan 6th we aren't talking about the actual stated goal of Jan 6th. You can go round and round but, in the end, what happened on Jan 6th. Was a group of people, who at the behest of the losing candidate of a presidential campaign tried to pressure the Vice-President to reject the certified electoral votes, with votes this candidate knew to be false, on account of his campaign falsifying them.
I don't care if you call what happened on Jan 6th an insurrection, riot, protest, or tourist visit. Those facts aren't in dispute because they happened out in the open.
Can you honestly claim that that is anything but criminal behavior?