I don't think we are appreciating how lovely the student protests are, and the main reason is that you must not pick a side for both are your enemies:
- The cops are the enforcers of Tyranny. If protests turn into riots, the blue will get wounded or killed.
- The students are the same ones that sold their Trump supporting relatives to the government after Jan 6, and cheered for their imprisonment.
This is like a demon infight in a tough Doom 2 WAD. You come back to pick up the survivors.
For anyone into OPSEC that want to do away with Kali Linux and other pentesting distros, you may wanna look into this: https://github.com/ThePorgs/Exegol?tab=readme-ov-file
Exegol is hacking environment that is pretty much a Docker image that has most tools you'd find Kali and others.
It may be better to split your environment into containers for deployment but ymmv.