• MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
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    The solution is more left-wing protest groups. Especially now that their manpower is down. (Edit: they’re their)

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      We can look to the French for how crowds surrounded individuals who physically fought back, preventing their capture by authorities. That was a vid I saw on the old site. Dude walloped some cops and then people pulled him into their ranks and made a wall.

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          Wear a mask and don’t post videos from protests with recognizable faces.

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            Good advice. But wearing a mask in public (dissimulating your face in general) is actually illegal in France (because of Sarkozy iirc). Not saying people stopped doing it at protests but it gives an excuse to the police to arrest you even if you are not being violent.

            Edit : I just checked, the fine increases 10 to 20 fold for doing it at a protest…

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              COVID’s still going strong and your mask “is for health protection”. Crowds of people like that make for fertile ground for disease to spread which is all the more reason for people to mask up and for fellow protestors to hand out surgical masks.

              An even better solution is a full face covering respirator to avoid eye exposure. From disease or chemical weapons used by police against their own citizens.

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      armed protest groups, but trump wants an excuse to use more excessive force, left wing groups are not very keen in using weapons.