The Yellow Vest protesters are out of control. Just look at this for proof.

Members of the "yellow vests" protest movement have vandalised almost 60% of France's entire speed camera network, the interior minister has said.
Christophe Castaner said the wilful damage was a threat to road safety and put lives in danger.
The protest movement began over fuel tax increases, and saw motorists block roads and motorway toll booths.
Some protesters feel speed cameras are solely a revenue-generating measure which takes money from the poor.

That is soooo...true and reasonable. When do we start our yellow vest movement?
Well, we can't have that.

Officers were filmed brandishing Heckler & Koch G36 weapons by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Saturday afternoon. The presence of semi-automatic rifles at a demonstration by unarmed French citizens shows how President Emmanuel Macron’s law and order crisis spirals.

It comes after former conservative minister Luc Ferry called for live fire to be used against the ‘thugs’ from the Yellow Vest movement who he says ‘beat up police’.

Hey! A militarized police force is OUR thing. No copying.

This crackdown coincided with the attempt by Yellow Vests to make a nationwide bank run. The government responded.

The yellow vest movement activists took to social media recommending the massive cash withdrawals. Maxime Nicolle, one of the protestors, called it the ‘tax collector’s referendum.’ The protestor said that the movement aimed at getting the citizens’ ‘bread’ back since the government is making profits with their money in the banks.
...Although the globalists claimed that the “bank run” would not work and would have no effect on the Euro and French banks, the currency has taken a slight hit and seems to be suffering from a ‘short squeeze.’
...The effects are confirmed by multiple reports that French banks are restricting and sometimes denying withdrawals from a majority of their customers. Some of the ATMs were left not working. Thus, the French bank runs seem to be working despite the major media blackout. The bank run seems to have rattled the government extensively leading to mercenaries dressing as French police and firing live ammunition into crowds of unarmed civilians.

I guess people aren't powerless after all.
Here's a video of a fireman who joined France's Yellow Vest protest movement being shot in the head 'like a rabbit' by a police officer using a flash ball gun.