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France. If you don’t run when the police charge at you, they will retreat.
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HAHAHAHA eat shit losers
Yeah... Moments later they'll start throwing teargass cannisters and bring the water canon. That'll cause people to begin dispersing, and when they do, those riot police will charge again and then they'll certainly not retreat.
The local hospital will have a very busy evening.
In France (and in the civilized world at large) there are levels of escalation in policing, here is a great example. The US however as I understand it has two levels: eating donut ---> opening fire. For some reason the US is slightly dysfunctional, apparently.
Don't taze me bro.
This is an element I appreciated of the WatchDogs games. If you escalate methods slowly, the fascist security forces do the same. So if you use baton strikes, they act the same way, and aim for an arrest that won’t kill off your unnamed character. It’s mostly a way to prefer stealth, since that stays nonlethal and silent. But in an emergency if you start shooting, they shoot back.
There’s also some bits of karma to pre-escalation on their side; 3 guards guarding an entryway is tricky to get through. 3 guards backed up by a giant machine gun turret is actually easier since it’s just a button press.
See, that’s why US cops just shoot protesters instead.
surprisingly enough, police don’t shoot at armed protestors in the us. but for some reason protesting groups make being unarmed a requirement, and if you show up armed, they other you and work with police to get you removed
I thought it was so they could get some time off with pay before transferring to a new station.
That too! It’s a two-for-one deal
Yeah, because cops may be stupid, but they can still count.
Well, French cops can count.
What do you expect from a language that defines 99 as 4x20+10+9
TIL: Im not eligible to be a French cop, because Math.
how many luftballons go by?
It's not the number that's important, it's that they went through Belgium.
In the US, half of those protesters would be dead already
looked like an unorganized charge though. Germany has (unfortunately) laws against demonstrating when police said its go home time. So they just pick individuals and book them for the night. With a few (unlawful) bonks on the head.
You can try resisting and de-arresting if the crowd is involved, but in my experience demonstration crowds in Germany are just passive, and a few cops can do that comfortably because the rest of the thousands of assistants just stand there and watch.
Same laws in France.
We Germans are just pussies.
I'm super jelly of France where they start burning the whole country when their gouvernment tries to increase the retirment age from 64 to 65 in Germany it's been 67 for decades without major protests from the population.
Guns, airpower, and artillery upended many of the classic rules of warfare that were practiced and honed for thousands of years before these technologies arrived. But protest and riot return us to the close quarter melee warfare that defined millenia, and for which there are writings from authoritative experts like Sun Tzu, Alexander, Xenephon, Vegetius, their writings on military strategy including use of archers, cavalry, terrain, complex movement, supply logistics, and tactical intelligence. Modern riots are fascinating in how they echo these historical principles so closely.
“We’ve done nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”
Fucking pigs
Because they didn't hurt anyone and showed restraint?...
No, because they are class traitors
Yeah... I guess. But at least they don't shoot people for walking wrong
Hey they only do that to brown people in the US
french pigs, i think a stale baguette would suffice in scaring them off.
Obviously the French police have never met a French protester before.
The second amendment is for shooting cops (America only).
Lmfao false, it's for shooting up schools. What a shithole country
That's a lot of candy ass talk considering what's going in in the US news currently
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