Somedays, you have to wonder.
I generally assume most of these riots and protests will eventually die down and peter out, like most all eventually do. Maybe there will be some new and revised laws that come of it, possibly some restructuring of law enforcement organizations, maybe some new approaches to law enforcement policy.
But eventually, things go back toward normal. Protests and riots happen from time to time.
The list is long, and things eventually go back to normal and plod along. Will that happen here? Seems likely, from this historical perspective.
But every now and then, it's the start of something bigger. The embassy staff in tehran surly didn't think the student protest they watched in November of 1979 was the start of a revolution. It was just another protest. Did the Italians realize that the March on Rome would usher in Mussolini as a fascist dictator? Did average Russians, seeing the protests and demonstrations leading up to the February revolution, think it would end with a bullet in the tsar's head and a marxist government?
Somedays... you have to wonder.