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since I retweeted this the first time about half a dozen people I know to be Serious Demo Attenders have independently gone ‘wait, you can do that?’
such is knowledge dissemination on the left. real heads will remember the G8 protests in Genoa and the Italians like Ya Basta suiting up in like football armour and rollmats and just walking through the cops
Also stringing together a bunch of inner tubes and pallets in a line so that with enough people behind it a police shield charge would just sort of awkwardly bounce off 
they’ve also got their own little Maidan
thing I love about the tactics of a riot is that you are basically just independently rediscovering bits of medieval combat. thus, the schiltron
there was a bit during the Tahrir Square protests where Mubarak sent lads on camels to try and trample and whip the crowd and their response would have done any commander up until the invention of firearms proud
turns out that when they have a mind to it is pretty easy for a crowd to encircle and unhorse - or, well, uncamel - a guy, who is then having a bad day
