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pat_k

(11,527 posts) Sun Jun 8, 2025, 09:49 PM Jun 8

Protestors, please heed and promote this guidance [View all]

Facebook post from Shannon Coleen re-posted by Jimmy Kimmel Live

🗣️ 🪧 “… From this moment forward, at every protest, we must do the following:

ℹ️ The moment violence or property damage begins, EVERY OTHER PROTESTER must immediately sit on the floor or the ground in silence, with signs down.

📷 The media (or a someone) needs to film this. This will reveal paid fake thugs posing as protesters becoming violent.

❤️The sitting down must spread like a "wave" in a football stadium throughout the crowd of protesters.

‼️Local police officers will immediately see WHO is doing the damage, and the rest of us will demonstrate our non-violent innocence and retain our ➡️Constitutional right ⬅️ to peaceful protest.

💯Retweet, repost, and shout it from the rooftops at every protest you attend!

#Gandhi #passiveresistance #pacifists #NoViolenceAllowed #PeacefulProtestOnly

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Protestors, please heed and promote this guidance [View all] pat_k Jun 8 OP

This is terrible advice. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 8 #1

There are other resources for more detailed guidance. pat_k Jun 8 #4

Pointing out people for cops to bash is not deescalation. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 8 #6

??? You don't appear to have reviewed the resources. pat_k Jun 8 #9

I think you're getting police brutality events mixed up with national politics. RoeVWade Jun 9 #15

"This is Trumpian." What is Trumpian? WhiskeyGrinder Jun 9 #17

Sure, and you can fight criminals and ignore their crime boss also. RoeVWade Jun 9 #19

Both ICE and the cops were bullies and thugs before Trump ever came along WhiskeyGrinder Jun 9 #21

Sometimes, you just have to throw chests of tea into the water. Tarzanrock Jun 8 #2

sitting down for fascism Skittles Jun 8 #3

What do you recommend? Joining in self-defeating acts of violence? pat_k Jun 9 #13

I don't agree with violence at all Skittles Jun 9 #14

Well, we can't all agree on everything. pat_k Jun 9 #16

I think it's a good strategy Mossfern Jun 9 #23

Ones who will get hurt if situation worsens in LA, are the people we supposedly support. 50501 type protests Silent Type Jun 8 #5

Non-Violent protest is more effective in effecting change pat_k Jun 8 #7

The nonviolent visibility approach is the Right Way for Now... Bread and Circuses Jun 8 #8

Non-Violence is also MORE EFFECTIVE pat_k Jun 8 #10

Spoiler alert: throwing rocks, damaging property and putting up roadblocks are counted as "nonviolent" in that study. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 9 #18

Hell no. Stay home if you agree with this. Jirel Jun 8 #11

Violence and property damage sets us BACK. pat_k Jun 9 #12

Upright significant physical separation from thugery while marching Prairie_Seagull Jun 9 #20

Sitting down will make one vunerable. Bad idea. yellow dahlia Jun 9 #22