During the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, Colombia experienced intense civic mobilizations, characterized by high political tensions and an indiscriminate use of force by the police, sparking public debates about an apparent need to regulate and restrict the right to protest. The Colombian society seems to have a contradictory relationship with social protest as a political right. Although protest is recognized as a fundamental right in the Constitution, another emerging set of rules has sought to substantially restrict its exercise. This article seeks to approach this issue through the categories of lawscape and affective atmospheres, in order to show that the normative contradictions are actually the result of affective contradictions that expand themselves through space as affective atmospheres that determined (and are determined) by the bodies participating in the protest. To achieve this, we will analyze how the affective predisposition and the atmotechnics displayed by different actors, but particularly state agents who can impose their will through the use of force, end up resolving the normative contradictions through the consolidation of a security atmosphere around the protest of the Paro Nacional.