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It's astonishing that Scientific American is having to publish an article on How Not To Be Killed By The Police, but here it is

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How to Protect Yourself during Protests

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www.scientificamerican.com /article/how-to-protect-yourself-during-protests/

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1mo ago

It's astonishing that Scientific American is having to publish an article on How Not To Be Killed By The Police, but here it is

www.scientificamerican.com /article/how-to-protect-yourself-during-protests/

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There's a post going around lib spheres with a text image saying like "If anyone is violent while you're protesting peacefully, everyone sit down and go silent, it will be a powerful image and will isolate the violent agitators." Great idea, let's just put our heads exactly where the police are aiming already and stay still. At least most comments seem to be deriding anyone that posts it, like how can anyone at this point believe they won't just shoot you anyway.
- Lib: "It's like if a black bear is about to attack you - play dead that way—"
  Leftist: "No. That's wrong. If a black bear charges and attacks you - fight back with everything you have. Do not play dead. Anyway - who cares. This is downtown LA and those are cops not bears. Still - maybe there's a lesson to be learned here."
  Lib: "You interrupted me. You are rude and I don't like you."
  Leftist: "Okay, okay. Carry on."
  
  Lib: not listening not listening i win the moral highround
- https://i.redd.it/feniqduiag6f1.jpeg
I like graphic for summarizing their points and the emote potential
- Ditch the phone. Inverted riot shield helps with acoustic and chemical attacks.
  
  seriously.. bringing a phone at a minimum tells authorities when and where you are/were but likely if you've got a smart phone of any sort they can probably just turn your mic and camera on as well as intercept/record any texts and calls
- Haha hell yeah. I knew that looked familiar
If there's one thing that CIA funded protest in Hong Kong showed, the unserious pro-colonial rule side seemed to have prepared well from this image I found years ago.
- Honestly im surprised the lasers too blind cops isn't more of a thing esp. with how easy it would be to permanently blind them and how hard it would be for them to figure out who shined a fucking laser from up to a mile away
  
  In 2020, green lasers were used regularly and Chad Wolf lied that multiple officers were permanently blinded by them (they weren't). They used the lasers as an excuse to use more repressive crowd control
  
  American cops are so trigger happy if they see a red dot they'll assume it's from a sight and might just start shooting at anything nearby
- Bro dressed like he just finished looting maint and is ready to join the greytide
Not only that, but it's a repost:
Editor’s Note (6/11/25): We are republishing this piece from 2020 in light of the recent protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles.
the youtube "Tech Ingredients" guy gives libertarian, but they have some recent-ish anti-small drone stuff and some older anti-LRAD experiments from a few years ago that are probably relevant
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SciAm c1ould have posted an article in their 1845 first edition; pork have been killing us since forever.

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