"Police accountability activists" have considerably broadened their platform and methods.

The historical phrase is direct action.

Demanding people give up their homes in the middle of the night and supporting looting as "reparations" are both in the wheelhouse of direct action.

If you are of a mind to shrug off the latter as just big guys getting a minor insurance headache, you (1) are part of the problem, and (2) incredibly wrong. 

And in five years when the locals are wondering why they are living in broadened food deserts and have to travel 30 miles into the (inexplicably extra-defensive, gimlet-eyed) suburbs, there won't be any wondering why.

In an interesting turn of events, African-American residents of the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago weren't having any part of a demonstration against their police precinct.

“Y’all don’t come out when the kids get shot. Y’all come out when it has something to do with the f—ing police,” Smith said. “We out here every day watching our kids get their brains blown out, with no budget, no resources. Y’all motherf—ers getting all the resources, and you want to come over here and disrupt our neighborhood.”

At least this demonstration wasn't showing signs of revolutionary mission creep, and stuck to police-related issues. Nevertheless, the demonstration dispersed shortly afterwards.