If you're going...this needs to go viral.

[634-5789]

The NO KINGS protests are SATURDAY. Please, be safe!

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Caveat: DO NOT SIT DOWN IF TEAR GAS IS DEPLOYED.

How Tear Gas Works

If you're lying on the ground, get up and move, because heavier-than-air CS gas will settle into a thick ground-level layer.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/tear-gas4.htm

[Raven123]

3. Thank you for the info

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. This is terrible advice and people need to stop spreading it.

[Raven123]

4. Why?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. If things are starting to get rowdy, you're stuck on the ground while other people are running. Sitting and being

“peaceful” doesn’t protect you from cop violence — it gives them an easy target. They are not interested in helping you get the infiltrators. They start swinging as soon as something goes sideways, and relying on them to be discerning is a fool’s game.



UC Davis, Occupy, 2011

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Correct. Leaving the area exposes the provocateurs even better and gets out of the way of police arresting them

Safer and achieves peaceful goals better.

[Raven123]

15. Thanks

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Crowd surges can be deadly if you are sitting down. You can be trampled to death.

If there is violence and you sit down to "expose" the provocateurs, the police might charge the crowd to grab the lawbreakers. The crowd can panic and run.

If there is violence, leave the area. Do not sit down unless you want to die.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. I agree. Protesters need to follow the guidelines of the organizations...

That created the events. There's plenty to read and learn.

There are also designated individuals who are responsible for the crowd's first aid, movement flow and safety. They are there for a reason. Listen to them.

Memes like this are woefully inaccurate and incomplete in their helpfulness.

This one is straight up dangerous if tear gas is involved.

[et tu]

7. thank you!

[littlemissmartypants]

18. ❤️

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Also, FWIW, that's a photo from Germany in 2015.

In addition, sitting down in that photo is a tactic to claim the street, not to avoid being mistaken for a bad actor.

[bdamomma]

10. Just wondering

or observing, all this time there have been protests with no provocations, now tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash bangs, National Guard and Marines being deployed, in LA that's Stephen Miller's home state. Also when this started on Saturday the protestors were peacefully telling ICE to leave that detention center.

This escalation is from Stephen Miller, call that bastard out!!!! He even called it an insurrection, to escalate his next move for the POS to call for martial law. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Sitting down in a crowd is very VULNERABLE to INJURY. Crowd can surge if police charge or crowd panics

You could be run over and trampled to death or serious injury.

If there is any violence from anybody, leave the area. Be situationally aware. If the crowd gets too dense, move to the edges.

If there are provocateurs, leave the area. That exposes them even better than sitting down. It makes it easier for the police to arrest them than when people are sitting down in the way.

BE SAFE! Don't sit down in crowds.

[murielm99]

14. We have been told to turn our backs,

not to speak to them, not to engage with them.

[Happy Hoosier]

16. Please DO NOT sit down....

In the event a panic erupts, you will be VERY vulnerable to getting trampled. Find some other way to express peaceful intent.

[Celerity]

17. typical shit advice from the grifters and fake news pushers (plus Mitch McConnell supporters) at Occupy Democrats

https://eu-west-3.democraticunderground.com/100219896345#post42








much more at the top link

[littlemissmartypants]

19. ❤️

[scipan]

20. Wouldn't it be better to chant something anti-violence?

Move away if safety requires it. Sitting down could be dangerous and also ambiguous.

Use your voice. Condemn violence.

Just my 2 cents.

[Amaryllis]

21. Sign up for 2 very Important Indivisible calls happening today in prep for No Kings protests-they cover safety

https://indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/view/118580
Please go to the link above to access the embedded links in info below which I pasted. Scroll down to "You weekly to-dos" to sign up. Does anyone know how to get a direct link? If I use a direct link, it has all my personal info from when I signed up.

Sign up for the No Kings mass call this Thursday, June 12, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT to prepare for the huge day ahead! All No Kings attendees are highly encouraged to join our pre-mobilization call this Thursday, when we’ll discuss recent developments, share tactics to de-escalate conflict, give tips for successful demonstrations, and come together in community to get fired up for Saturday.

Join this week’s “What’s the Plan” call (Thursdays, 3pm ET / 12pm PT) to ask Leah and Ezra your questions about Los Angeles, ICE, No Kings, and more. Each Thursday, our co-founders jump online to break down the news, draw inspiration from our work, and answer your questions directly. Come be part of a free-flowing, interactive chat about what’s next in our fight for democracy.