Not necessarily. Depends on the specific group of protesters present. Moreover, the 'angry mob' mentality is infectious. Don't underestimate its effect, turning well-meaning people unreasonable.
See what happened when a sympathetic protester begs a protester mob to let an ang moh teenage girl (separated from her parents) to fly back home to UK. The protester mob refuses to let the ang moh teenage girl pass through, justifying with angry shouts of "
Blame the HK govt!!!"
https://mothership.sg/2019/08/protester-pleads-hong-kong-airport/
The video started with the sympathetic protester saying:
“She wants to leave but she can’t. She’s now stuck here alone, and she’s only 18 years old.
She wants to return home, she wants to go back to England.
Her flight is at 11am, I’d like to ask if you can let her pass through?
We’re all young people here. If this happened to you, if you were stranded at an overseas airport, and had nothing with you, how would you feel?
Are we trying to pressure the government to take action, or are we trying to inconvenience everyone and stop them from going home?
I’ve participated in every protest, but I’ve never wanted to affect those who have nothing got to do with this.
I’ve went to every rally that denounced the actions of the ‘black police’, and used this microphone here to call out their actions.
But the question here is why are we making those who are innocent suffer?
Yes, we should be pressuring Carrie Lam. But why, why are we stopping this innocent girl from going home?”
Two protesters shouted back, “
Blame the HK government!!!”
https://mothership.sg/2019/08/protester-pleads-hong-kong-airport/