the only reason this works is because the citizens are unorganized and unarmed.
if people gather in groups of tens of people to protect each other against the government there is no way they could throw anyone in jail.
Well then they would probably make an example of a few to intimidate the rest.
how will they do that if they have a million armed people marching on their jail.
there are millions of us and only a few thousand of them, its insane that people haven't gathered up and thrown those government thugs in a cage yet.
It has happened many times in history.
Those people then form a new government which, in time, turns out to be pretty similar to the old one.