Social protest: is it a right or a threat? Analysis of the social protest seen in the threats to the civil rights of the citizen

Abstract

Social protest, part of a right of the citizenship to recognize how the general welfare of the population prevails in accordance with the fulfillment of the minimum needs of individuals in the face of the construction of a social, political, and cultural system. The aim of this article is to analyze the threats faced by citizen from the perspective of civil rights. As a methodology, a documentary study is used, qualitative, with a nonexperimental design and cross-sectional, so it studies, so it studies with the use of databases and studies, a theoretical approach on social protest. It was found that, the role of the national police in social protest is disconnected from the goal of security forces, which is to provide security and guaranties to the civilian population, which only seeks to demonstrate that, power rests on the people in the form of moving society economically and politically, in turn trying to eliminate inequality and injustices committed by some particular minority, for this reason and in accordance with the constant clashes between two actors of society such as the civilian population and the national police, the civil rights of citizen are evolving in order to guarantee their right to a free and spontaneous manifestation.