if the courts are willing to do so

That’s a big “if.”

Or they might just have the local police bomb and incenerate an entire city block like in Philly.

The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.

*Edit: typo

It took me too long to figure out that you meant to say “protect” instead of “pretext”.

Two things can be true.

We’ve seen that before.

For those who don’t know:

• Right-Wing Groups Target Pride Events Amid Rising Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric (time.com, June 2022)

At least 11 different LGBTQ Pride events across the United States have been disrupted by right-wing protesters or delayed due to threats of violence in the past two months, according to research by TIME and the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters. Those numbers reflect a “step up in aggressive activity targeting LGBTQ people,” compared to recent history, according to Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow with Right Wing Watch, a project by the progressive group People For the American Way.