The amount of denialism and lack of introspection here is astonishing.
HT called for PUBLIC protests. (For those out of the loop, a public protest is a novel concept of demonstration that is literally meant to get as much free media attention as possible.) Then, when said media bothers showing up, they get attacked, and they report on the attacks and unruliness of the protests. It's certainly not the protesters that caused a chillul hashem, it's the darn-fangled media that actually showed up and gave the protesters the free attention they were desperately seeking.