Just like at every single protest in France. People protest legitimately, a few assholes come in to just break stuff and throw punches, media and politics focus on these.
It’s often agent provocateurs, they police themselves, or other groups, send in people to break stuff, try to rile a crowd up, and otherwise give the police an excuse to go after the protesters.
We saw, (on the internet most of us,) in the BLM protests people doing this and being called out on the spot for it, and found out many were like proud boy douches.
Sounds a lot like protests in the USA. Minneapolis remembers black umbrella man setting the AutoZone on fire, giving the cops a chance to regroup, and became something the media focused on and it wasn’t proven he was a white supremacist agitator until later… and the news had moved on by that point and that was mostly only covered by smaller publications. New York Times wasn’t about to give an expose about how right wing agitators helped the police have a police riot. Not once did our media refer to it as a “police riot” even though beating the living shit out of angry citizens because you murdered an innocent is a police riot.
Tbh it’s completely legitimate to be angry at the oligarchy and to attack its capital within reach. Illegal, of course, yet legitimate. The politicians will use any excuse to hunt you down anyway, regardless of how peaceful one’s actions are at the protest. They never play fair.
Just like at every single protest in France. People protest legitimately, a few assholes come in to just break stuff and throw punches, media and politics focus on these.
It’s often agent provocateurs, they police themselves, or other groups, send in people to break stuff, try to rile a crowd up, and otherwise give the police an excuse to go after the protesters.
We saw, (on the internet most of us,) in the BLM protests people doing this and being called out on the spot for it, and found out many were like proud boy douches.
Sounds a lot like protests in the USA. Minneapolis remembers black umbrella man setting the AutoZone on fire, giving the cops a chance to regroup, and became something the media focused on and it wasn’t proven he was a white supremacist agitator until later… and the news had moved on by that point and that was mostly only covered by smaller publications. New York Times wasn’t about to give an expose about how right wing agitators helped the police have a police riot. Not once did our media refer to it as a “police riot” even though beating the living shit out of angry citizens because you murdered an innocent is a police riot.
Tbh it’s completely legitimate to be angry at the oligarchy and to attack its capital within reach. Illegal, of course, yet legitimate. The politicians will use any excuse to hunt you down anyway, regardless of how peaceful one’s actions are at the protest. They never play fair.