https://duckduckgo.com/?q=political+defiance&ia=web -> https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/pursuing-political-defiance
But I’m not going to tell the black bloc folks how to do their job and I expect they won’t tell me how to do mine.
"I'm not going to tell the police-planted agitators how to do their job and I expect they won't tell me how to do mine."
Honestly, what you're saying sounds pretty similar to what I'm saying (IDK why you felt the need to couch precisely what I am saying behind this phrasing of "But I also recognize..."). But this sentence in particular is precisely the opposite of both what Gene Sharp's research recommends, and what I've heard of as the general practice in US protests. Maybe it's different now (and, like both of us are saying, different situations are different), but from people I've spoken with the best practice when someone near you is getting violent is pretty much the exact opposite of letting them "do their job" unhindered.