Convenient Neglect

I think some legal matters have been overlooked lately...
The following is stated in the California Civil Code Section 52.1

(a) If a person or persons, whether or not acting under color
of law, interferes by threats, intimidation, or coercion, or
attempts to interfere by threats, intimidation, or coercion, with the
exercise or enjoyment by any individual or individuals of rights
secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of the
rights secured by the Constitution or laws of this state, the
Attorney General, or any district attorney or city attorney may bring
a civil action for injunctive and other appropriate equitable relief
in the name of the people of the State of California, in order to
protect the peaceable exercise or enjoyment of the right or rights
secured. An action brought by the Attorney General, any district
attorney, or any city attorney may also seek a civil penalty of
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000). If this civil penalty is
requested, it shall be assessed individually against each person who
is determined to have violated this section and the penalty shall be
awarded to each individual whose rights under this section are
determined to have been violated.

 The rest of it is pretty fun, too... and I'm fairly certain this applies to MUCH of what has happened, at least in California, very recently.
This goes out to everyone who thinks that what has happened in Davis, Berkeley, LA, Oakland, San Francisco, Riverside, and Orange County were justified because the protesters were breaking the law.