It's "violent" in the sense of "I violently agree with you". I read a lot of public comment (I'm peripherally involved in local government) and language like "please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily zoning overlay projects" is unusually forceful; it's not even attempting to persuade, but rather making a direct demand.

At any rate, none of this is any kind of woke words-as-violence drama; it's a word being used in a colloquial sense that people here happen to have an unproductive hair trigger about.

I did. Did you? In fact, the usage is literally listed as an example.

>They are violently opposed to the plans.