...I've never once heard of modern day American anarchists getting "violent". The NW is a hotbed of anarchist thought and action. Sometimes these folks find property destruction to be a healthy outlet for personal expression, but anarchists by nature are typically a pacifist bunch. Anarchists have been scapegoated for decades, and many were unjustly jailed/lynched/executed on trumped up charges (Haymarket, Centralia massacre etc.) What I've noticed is that it's the cops that usually resort to violence at protests, not the other way around.