if you're beating on someone and you see a bunch of people who look like they're with that person, you are much more likely to stop
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Replying to @kittystryker @dadsized
Yeah, tell me how anyone was going to get there after Police kettled the activist bloc away from that parking garage
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Those principles don't actually hold when faced with the facts of that day. If we actually had the ability to get any group of people there
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we would have. But we didn't. And we were up against considerably more militia firepower than the west coast sees.
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Respectfully, Cville is a very different place than Berkeley. Despite the super progressive reputation, police here are incredibly hostile.
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Replying to @mr0x20wednesday @EmilyGorcenski and
Black Bloc techniques are more to thwart law enforcement than the fascists. And Aug 27th was one of their greatest successes.
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Police here use tear gas and other riot munitions to disperse crowds without trying other techniques that don't harm people first.
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So you mean exactly what they did in Cville, too. Got it. Totally different.
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Sorry, it was opener to a larger series of tweets.
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Replying to @mr0x20wednesday @EmilyGorcenski and
I'm not familiar with Cville police and didn't see the same hostility that Bay Area law enforcement shows protestors in news coverage.
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So you're not familiar with Cville PD but felt confident enough in the comparison to launch a dozen tweets at me.
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