@alexwild As an organizer of a 100K-attendee Women's March: we arranged with the city police before we protested. They knew we would be there, we knew they would be there, we ordered porta-potties and garbage cans and we left the place spotless.

Biggest global march fucking ever. No police incidents to speak of.

Everyone conscious tenses up when there's unexpected shit going down. Everyone.

The kids aren't driving the violence, but they aren't using proven methods to mitigate it, either.

@enoch_exe_inc @alexwild Policing will never, ever go away, no matter where you go, there will be an establishment that is bumbling along at a losing attempt to suppress violence with violence.

If you want to protest violence, you do everything in your power to not instigate more of it, no matter who it's coming from. And you prove it by publishing believable attempts at violence mitigation, repeatedly. The problem is that violence & fear-mongering is what gets attention. Receipts are boring.

@janisf @enoch_exe_inc @alexwild this kind of rhetoric seems sneakily gross. The underlying implication that in order for protest to be legitimate, and specifically to not have an expectation of being assaulted, you have to first get permission from the institution you're protesting against is wrongheaded at best.

The state has a responsibility to not use its monopoly on violence unless it has extremely good reasoning for it. "You didn't fill out the form" does not and will never qualify.