Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

Damn, NYPD is so bad, Mafia started protecting good cops

good cops actually look like this btw^

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If you do want to go toe to toe with cops don’t do it at the main protest in your area. Start shit across town and split the cops’ resources. “Open a second front” so to speak and take some of the heat off of the people they have absolutely no qualms about harming. Split up and open up a third front, a fourth. Keep moving and keep them moving.

even the cities with the largest police budgets only have enough force multipliers for one big containment

And cops should be an obstacle, not always the primary objective. The power vacuums created during insurrectionary moments can make specific targets more achievable. Of course a clear example is the 3rd precinct. But during the 2020 riots more focus, and more splitting of police resources, could have occurred with more attacks against ICE, against pipeline corporations, against embassies of other countries in struggle, for example.