I think that these riots are revealing that there is a significant minority of people who have no concept of how they are required to interact with LEO, let alone how they should.
Yes, police are legally allowed to tell people what to do. Yes, they are legally allowed to use force to get people to comply or detain them if they don't cooperate.
Furthermore, if the police are answering a call for a riot against LEOs, they're scared as hell, so people acting erratic and verbally threatening them just so they can be YouTube martyrs isn't going to go well for anyone.
What Chauvin did is abhorrent, and the police writ large clearly have a huge PR problem due to decades of not holding bad apples accountable. Hell, they even made a great fictional movie, First Blood, based on the trope of a power abusing rural cop in the late 1970s.
But extrapolating that citizens have a right to not only disregard, but also to verbally abuse and physically threaten police is a leap too far.