LA Deportation Protests Are NOT Civil Disobedience

In this 30-minute video, Peter Demos breaks down the LA protests and exposes the dangerous misuse of the term “civil disobedience.” From violent blockades to Molotov cocktails, what’s happening in the streets there isn’t resistance — it’s chaos.

Real civil disobedience looks like the movements led by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. — grounded in moral law, nonviolence, and a willingness to accept consequences. What we’re witnessing now is a rejection of law itself, not a principled fight for change.

If we don’t call this what it is — rebellion, not righteousness — we risk losing the moral clarity future generations will need to stand against true injustice.

Peter Demos is the author of On the Duty of Christian Civil Disobedience and the host of Uncommon Sense in Current Times. A Christian business leader from Tennessee, Demos uses his biblical perspective and insight gained from his own struggles to lead others to truth and authenticity in a broken world. To learn more, visit peterdemos.org.