I think I am more experienced, though most of my protest experience before last December was many years ago. I have taken a chartered bus to Washington for a protest, a couple of times—I would be starting from scratch on arranging for the buses. So you may be right that I was just not the intended audience here.

I was expecting something about how to organize a protest, get people to attend, or about how to arrange for a permit as well as why, or an announcement of one or more planned protests, or similar. Calling the chief of police to ask for a meeting might be valuable, but it feels like the same kind of thing as calling my senators about a bill (if more difficult), or going to nominating caucuses the way some of my Minnesota friends do, rather than like in-the-streets activism.