Tricks Tricks:
Multiple instances of news crews being shot at with pepper balls by police. At least one was live.
these dumb fat-ass middle-aged grillpilled goofballs weilding paintball guns while building after building gets lost, arresting and taking pot shots at press and anyone else not wearing tacticool crap. losing and losing.
this is a lesson. they're scary, but they can't stop a mass, not in a single day. their buildings can be captured. they can lose everything to gunless unarmored peasants, if there's enough, if the people are quick. their hastily built barracade bought them maybe an hour
they won't lose to an army so much as lose to a lack of political organisation; though the roots of this and many other black politics in america have been straight up maoism. and if there's any reason folks wonder why buildings get burned, it's fundementally anti-capitalism.
and when you have a massive amount of people, pissed off about those with state authority to enact violence against them, and total alienation through centuries of life in the heart of capitalism, but have had all your proletarian political forces destroyed over decades of anti-communism, what is there to do? with the cops more than happy to start the smashing of windows to kick off the chaos, who are the people to not oblige such an invitation? sure it's disorganized, years of political leaders murdered. the natural result is a people who are still very angry, they just don't know how to take this further, and so simply destroying capital is ultimately the only action that can occur in such a raw moment.
at least, for now... if anyone's gunna lead something serious down there, it'll be them
edit: literally one letter