What if the victim is in a wheelchair? Deaf? What if the attacker has a gun? If they're mentally ill? If they don't speak English?
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
What if the aggressor is backed against a wall? What if you're lost? What if your phone is dead?
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
What if the aggressor is a state actor, like a cop or a soldier? What if the person refuses to let themselves be transport to a hospital?
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
What if there's media nearby? What if they're having a panic attack?
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
^ Over the course of August 11 and 12 I encountered almost all of these scenarios. And in the lead-up I trained for many of them.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
You wanna preach non-violence? $50 says you don't even fucking know how to *do* non-violence.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
How much tactical coordination is in place? Are there generally agreed upon principles re: engagement/escalation? This seems like an 1/x
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Replying to @ChuckMunyon @EmilyGorcenski
Area where significant opportunity exists for experience sharing and training via social media. The right wing has had militias for 2/x
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Replying to @ChuckMunyon @EmilyGorcenski
Decades, but training non-escalating (not to be confused with non-violent) civil defense seems both more promising and more challenging.
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Replying to @ChuckMunyon
It depends on the action. I was not involved in day-of tactical coordination for a12, not that it would have mattered anyhow.
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Sometimes there are plans. Sometimes there are not. I coordinated with my security team for a12 since I was independent media.
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