To a degree. Thankfully, such finesse is called statecraft and there is a wide body of history, philosophy, and literature our leaders could draw from to guide them.
There is no perfect guide to these things, but brute force is rarely the best way.
I'm all for letting existing polities do as they please, but this looks eerily similar to how the Bolsheviks seized certain urban centers before spreading their cancer (an apt metaphor) across the USSR.
The CHAZ is funny...but so were the early Soviets. People thought their little experiment...
My German teacher told us stories of how there was this train station in Germany where bikers used to fight hippies every so often.
I thought it sounded like some ridiculous foreign event at the time...
If the police cannot be seized, they will be considered a counter-revolutionary force to be dismantled.
But make no mistake, order will be restored and something uglier will result.
1. Why are statues necessarily idols?
2. Because history is more complex than a Marxian victim vs. oppressor narrative. Some people had vices worth denouncing and virtues worth celebrating. The statue is there because they were significant, not necessarily perfect. Their example has a lesson to...