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This is the same as any major conflict. People want to try to work thing out without violence. The times that does happen are unremarkable. The times it doesn't happen, we can judge later weather it was the right thing to do.
When was there a time where people were fighting for basic human rights and in retrospect, it wasn’t considered the right thing to do?
I mean, saying that it's a fight for "basic human rights" is a positional statement within the context of the time when the fight is needed. There are white supremacists (as individuals, not as a rule) out there who genuinely feel as though their rights are being "infringed" upon by anyone who's skin lacks a perfectly porcelain pallor. In America at present, it's being (disingenuously) claimed that squashing trans people is in the interest of the rights of women and children. Those pushing that agenda don't believe that, but many of the followers do. If trans people are eradicated, it would be framed as a win for basic rights in the future.
More than that though, you've applied context to the poster above your that isn't present in their original post, nor in the OP. Limiting the point to "basic human rights" has sort of set up the claim "all historical fights involving justified topics were justified."
On the one hand, I suppose that depends on who is defining "basic human rights." I'm pretty sure the Trump Convoys would claim that's what they were doing.
On the other hand, the question was on riots, not on rights. Not all riots are justified.