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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.

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

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?

This is the way.

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

The fediverse way

Decentralized tactic against a strong centralized opponent.

How about 10000 1 person marches?

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

Spread em thin.

Divide and conquer

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.

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