"we are used to seeing more confrontational tactics used to shield those practicing non-violence (e.g., at Standing Rock and Charlottesville). The reversal of this in Minneapolis afforded greater autonomy to those employing confrontational tactics."
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"Ballistics squads threw water bottles, rocks, a few Molotov cocktails, and fireworks. Those using ballistics didn’t always work in groups, but doing so protected them from being targeted by non-violent protestors who wanted to dictate the tactics of the crowd."
"We call the battles of the second and third days at the 3rd Precinct a siege because the police were defeated by attrition. The pattern of the battle was characterized by steady intensification punctuated by qualitative leaps due to the violence of the police."
"Third, perhaps the crowd’s most important tactical discovery was that when one is forced to retreat from tear gas, one must refill the space one has abandoned as quickly as possible. Each time the crowd at the 3rd Precinct returned, it came back angrier and more determined"
"borrowing from the language of Hong Kong, we saw the crowd practice the maxim “Be water.” ...the crowd flowed away from police advances like a torrential destructive force. Each police advance resulted in more businesses being smashed, looted, and burned."
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