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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

It's because their approach to protests is to form police lines. They want to form a phalanx-style wall of police that cuts off access to the road. This limits freedom of movement and lets them direct the protest towards a given direction if they decide to break it up and fire tear gas into the crowd.

They probably don't have enough people to form 10 police lines.

I would call this "decentralized protest" and yes it cripples the current tactics of the police.

Their answer will be decentralized policing, basically nazi tactics. Informants, tip lines, rewards for ratting our your neighbor. The FBI uses the same type of tactic when they do manhunts. Except they will use these tactics to target the people organizing the protests.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If anyone would like to read the source for that statement, it comes from a July, 2020 survey of LAPD officers.

The original quote, only attributed to “one participant” was, “We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but 10 1,000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us.”

https://ia801703.us.archive.org/22/items/july-2020-surveys-of-lapd-officers/2020_july_lappl_membership_survey_summaries_text.pdf

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Why is it only people in Califonia protesting?

The national guard can probably handle almost any number of groups of people in one state, but how many could they handle in 50 states?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

It isn't just California. But Cali is getting all the press because corporate media is state media in an oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Every state has a National Guard. I can see how that would be confusing now that you mention it, but they're basically just a reservist military that the governors mostly control outside of an official war.

In any event, they're still federal military, the fascists would just mobilize the real army, like how the shitcan is trying to send 700 Marines.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's not, there have been 1000s of priest throughout the entire country.

The question should be why isn't the media covering it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And why aren't people posting about it on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can't tell if this is a serious question,

Lemmy, is a tiny portion of the Internet. If I was posting something with a call to action this small community is not where I would post to reach the most people .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Nah I meant why isn't anyone posting about the protests that have already happened. But I saw one article about a couple others today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

This would work against the deployment of armed forces too!

Each time they deploy the army, start up a new protest on the other side of the country. Start so many "fires" they literally can't fight them all.

The people have the numbers on their side.

[–] throwawayacc0430 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gather everyone at Lafayette Square, Washington D.C. and have a few camera people nearby livestreaming.

I wonder if they'd do a Tiananmen: USA Edition

[–] untakenusername 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Well, I won't be there, so yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If you assess that protesting is not worth the personal risk, I fear that you might be undervaluing the risk of not protesting.

[–] untakenusername 1 points 19 minutes ago

the goal is to get peoeples attention on importnat stuff, not to see if you get run over by tanks or not

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago

The fediverse way

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago

Decentralized tactic against a strong centralized opponent.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

How about 10000 1 person marches?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What about one group of a million people. That would be a proper protest, the european way

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

This is a protest, not the release of a new iphone.

[–] Tar_alcaran 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The French way. We Dutch people are pretty cowardly and have lost any skill at protesting en masse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

How the mighty have fallen. I recall that you once killed and consumed your prime minister.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better to have a hundred groups of 10 000 people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Or 1000000 groups of 1.

[–] taladar 14 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I wonder how LAPD can be unable to handle ten groups of 1000 people in a metropolitan area of almost 20 million people, I would assume ten groups of 1000 people is more like a quiet weekend.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Spread em thin.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Divide and conquer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Great to start and organize many people quickly, but it has to evolve into a strong opposition chain of command else it burns out rapidly. Ask OP where Belarus went with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Those would with against the LAPD, but would be less effective against the National Guard or Marines.