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...violence-receiving protesters, while at the same time allowing the protest to engage in what is essentially 'force protection' - keeping its people on the streets, out of jail, and out of a hospital, where they can continue to pursue the protest's agenda. 8/13
Of course on the flip-side, the police could defeat this entire strategy by *not engaging in violence* - if they showed forbearance and restraint, the protests would fail, either because nothing would happen or because protesting hot-heads would initiate... 9/13
...confrontations which might or might not be tactical successes, but would damage the movement's strategy. Thus as with war, discipline and cohesion here matter the most - not to do violence, but to *restrain* your violence to make the violence of the opponent clear. 10/13
What we've seen so far with the protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder is that both 'sides' - the police and the protesters - initially had discipline and cohesion problems, which created a confused and unclear situation for many observers. 11/13
But subsequently, the protesters showed increasingly *more* discipline than police in restraining their own violence. Consequently, they are winning, with huge polling shifts in recent months on a number of related issues. 12/13
It remains to be seen if those victories will be consolidated into meaningful police reform. There's a real uphill battle on that issue in the political arena, of course. But for now, it's not hard to see which side has the strategic initiative. end/13
Addendum: Police should also note: the protest's center of gravity *is police violence.* Reducing violence at protests/in general with better, more careful policing is the best way to reduce the strength of the protests. Police reform is the best way for the *police* to win too.
THIS is the tactic of Laurie Pritchett, police chief of Albany, GA, in 1962 against the Albany Movements/SCLC protests. Cf. Bull Conner’s tactics in Birmingham the following spring.
But if they wouldn't engage in violence, the anti-violence protesters will win!
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