Cops at protests: protection or suppression? We looked into and it and there is plenty of data to show the latter. What are your experiences at protests in and around Los Angeles? ~ @theglutster.bsky.social
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Cops need to control the crowds, but stop instigating shit that's unwarranted. Who is directing the officers that are beating on people, trampling with their horses, clubbing them on the heads, shooting with nonlethal ammo. Hey LAPD, these people protest for you also, your families live here.
My experience has been multiple members of law enforcement trying to intimidate peaceful protesters and instigate a response to implied threats of violence.
Bad! Hit with tear gas and a rubber bullet on the 8th (no gas mask that day), and then on the 14th when the police just went bonkers on the no kings protesters. Gas mask and armor, so I was protected, but still got welts from pepper balls between City Hall & CH West. Endless flash bangs and tear gas
Cops need to have a point for their presence at the protest: traffic or guarding municipal and state property. If they aren’t guarding something… they are guarding people and that’s typically suppression.
A fascist police state will suppress protest by any means available whether we want it or not. Protests must self-regulate to keep the police at a distance, suppressing with a light footprint, rather than truncheons. They want escalation. Scouts for infiltrators are a must. OPSEC’s a deadly science.
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Protests are not events or parades.
Leave the people alone.
LAPD Officer Jose Lizaola, for instance 👇🏻