Thanks everyone for your comments. A few notes to answer some of the questions/critiques I've received:
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Consider the constraints. Everything has to be organized anonymously and in full public view (on online forums), and any named leadership would be jailed. People *have* tried to do peaceful protests in defiance of the police, and it ends in tear gas and arrests.
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I've never liked the use of petrol bombs, but if you look at how they're being used, it has been clear that they initially served the same role as barricades—to buy time for people to run away by slowing down police pursuit. That is the result of the extreme legal hazard.
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