Suggested Tactics For Dealing With Police Harassment Of Protesters [View All]

[DistressedAmerican]

As many of you know I have spent much of the past several days pulling together photos, video, and written accounts of police actions during the recent POTUS visit to New Jersey.

The full information can be found at:
http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/distressedamerican/main.htm

There is video of the NJ arrests posted as well at:
http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/distressedamerican/westfieldvideo/WestfieldArrest.avi


Several intimidation tactics are being employed at these events. It is best to be prepared in advance for what you might see out there.

The tactics they are employing are fairly simple and should also be fairly simple to defeat.

So far we have seen that as the New Jersey event was letting out, the police decided to disperse the crowd of (perfectly legal) protesters. They began by grabbing and arresting several people from the crowd, none of whom had in any way broken the law. These arrests were them used to threaten the others that if they did not disperse they would also be arrested. In the New Jersey case the tactic worked fairly well. They arrested 9 and dispersed the protesters in minutes.

Here's what I suggest. First, take a camera. It is a lot easier to defend people who are charged with video or photos than just a story. Second, if arrests begin, it is important for the crowd NOT TO DISPERSE. I think it would be far more effective for everyone to just sit right down there and if need be get arrested. It is a lot harder for the MSM to ignore the arrests of 150 protesters than it is to ignore 9.

Fill their local jails and hold a jail cell rally. It worked for MLK!

I understand that this takes a commitment. It will most likely result in disorderly conduct charges, fines and a Secret Service file. However, if we allow these folks to drive us off when we are well within out legal rights, THEN THEY WIN!

Remember we are still working on getting this girl's charges dropped:


We have power if we take the streets and cover each other's backs!
BE CIVIL BUT, BE DISOBEDIENT!