you love to see it
:dorner:
Remember, the harder and faster you pitch in as a group to help de-arrest a comrade the more successful the outcome.
They were pretty slow here, the cops get spooked by the initial grabbing at them but they successfully fend that off. The crowd was going to resort to just chanting at them and comrade was gonna get arrested but the sandwich carton getting thrown and the presence of the skateboard is enough to spook them into giving up on it.
Looks like protest movements have re-invented phalanx tactics.
In addition to the tubes or shields in front, big marches often included a second rank of shields pointed upwards to fend off munitions that were shot or thrown over the front line. These can be seen clearly in the background of this photo of a police line being overwhelmed
Testudo formation!
He reaches for his weapon, only to realize that he literally can’t kill all of them without at least being swarmed to death like a school of piranhas. For once in his life, two brain cells in his head rub together, and he stands down.
I fuckin’ loved seeing that moment of cold realization of “oh god, they could kill us both right now so easily…”
Not so brave without a wall of Stormtroopers carrying spud guns and tear gas cans and taser robots to stand behind.
Shidddd we can outnumber them there too :agony-soviet: (eventually) (in Minecraft)
Also as the pigs have extensively researched themselves, at close range like in the video, guns actually lose most of their advantages and became not much better than a knife.
It’s called the “21 foot rule” and is legitimately what cops have used to justify killing people.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/21-foot-rule-controversial-police-training-shootings/
The basic is, at average a person can cover said 21 foot distance faster than a gun-wielder can draw and aim their weapon. In a violent situation this means the shorter the starting distance, the higher the odds of the melee fighter can overcome the shooter.