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https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/

The DHS bulletins warn that officers could face assaults with fireworks and improvised weapons: paint-filled fire extinguishers, smoke grenades, and projectiles like bottles and rocks (obviously all non-lethal & similar to flash bangs, riot control gas/smoke & "soft" projectiles) - aka both sides have similar weapons.

At the same time, the guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare “from the point of view of an adversary.”

Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even “on foot” are framed as potential “scouts” conducting reconnaissance or searching for “items to be used as weapons.” Livestreaming is listed alongside “doxxing” as a “tactic” for “threatening” police. Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters—or as participants in “surveillance sharing".

Exercising those rights shouldn't be justification for adverse action or suspicion by the government,” Eidelman says. Labeling something as harmless as skateboarding at a protest as a violent threat is “disturbing and dangerous,” she adds, and could “easily lead to excessive force against people who are simply exercising their First & Fifth Amendment rights.”

“The DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,” says Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People. “It should be sobering, if unsurprising, that the Trump regime’s response to mass criticism of its police state tactics is to escalate those tactic.

FILMING PUBLIC SERVANTS IN THE COURSE OF THEIR DUTIES IS IRONCLAD FREEDOM OF THE PRESS (1st)

WEARING MASKS IS AN IRONCLAD RIGHT AGAINST SELF INCRIMINATION & PRIVACY (5th/State law)

THIS SHOULD TERRIFY ALL USA AMERICANS!!