The 'essence' of Democracy is with the People; but Government has a duty to 'institutionally' implement it.

The essence of democracy is at the Bottom of Government, i.e., with the People. However, the duty to implement it is at the Top, with the Three Branches of Government. Obviously democracy cannot be viable if the Top of Government does not 'implement' democracy, or, if the 'branches' of the Executive Branch, like the Police Departments, themselves, violate the cannons of Democracy. The Top and all its Agencies are duty bound to implement democracy. That's their Job, and they have no other job to perform, in the line of their duties. In other words, democracy can go wrong ,both, at the Top and at the Bottom. But, the Top only has a 'Duty' to the Bottom; it does not have a right to 'exercise' some 'preferential agenda'. We have already stated, that in a justifiable Revolution, or 'demonstration', its already time for the Top, to begin to 'listen' to the Bottom. Pure 'adversarial actions', or violence, toward the Bottom is not the answer. That only increases the 'tension' between the Top and the Bottom. The 'incidents' that gave rise to the 'tensions' must be addressed. There has to be a democratic solution, and if 'one' has been suggested, then the problem must be transferred to the 'democratic institution' that exists for the resolution of these types of problems; of course, that would be the Judicial Branch. In a Democracy, all problems of a governmental nature, whether the problem arises at the Bottom, or at the Top, must be 'properly' resolved, i.e., democratically, viz., by the Judicial Branch. Then the Judiciary is duty bound to resolve the issues by the proper 'interpretive practices', i.e., no 'Party loyalty'; no 'ideological differences'; no racial discrimination; or, simply, "no hanky-panky".