Yes, that is their plan. It's been their plan all this time. Riots is the streets. Media backing them the whole way. Use Lawfare. Keep it in the courts with no winner declared into January. Let's see what happens.
They also believe the LEO's will be given stand-down orders. They've gotten their way. They believe it will remain that way.
What about the woman at the well who had had 7 husbands already and was living with a man not her husband? Or the woman caught in adultery (cast the first stone)