I'd like to discuss the ways that they've been trying to delegitimize the protests.

1. Plants: they have been planting police to start trouble. They have destroyed property with hammers and fire. There was an entire pile of bricks set up outside of one of Tr*mp's buildings 1/

just before a protest began. There has been no construction in the area and there was none planned.

2. Sudden curfews: Protestors all across the US have reported that they were texted about curfews suddenly just before the curfew was about to hit. Then as soon as the time 2/

hit for curfew, they were immediately showered in teargas, flash bangs, and rubber bullets. In Boston they just did this AND closed down public transportation.

Adding curfew allows them to say to the media "we warned them and they didn't leave". And people on the outside 3/

will say "If they didn't want to get hurt they should have left at curfew", thus delegitimizing any argument against police brutality.

3. Claiming Ant*fa/An*rchists are doing the violent things: How do you take the blame off the cops, while trying to placate people who are 4/

already angry? Well you certainly don't blame the people. At least, not the majority of them, so you blame Ant*fa or an*rchists instead. This way, suddenly there weren't cop plants starting trouble, there was an imaginary t*rrorist group instead. It would all be friendly with 5/

The 12 if the scapegoats weren't there.

But there is something even more sinister here. Ant*fa isn't an organization. It's a stance that is short for ant*fascist. This means you can't technically prove if someone is "Ant*fa" and gives the ability to label anyone as such. 6/

Now you can arrest ANYONE under that label and they lose their normal rights as citizens to things like trials, and lawyers, and it delegitimizes everything they did because they are now labeled an American enemy.

4. Good cops protesting: This is propoganda. Think of 7/

Good cop/bad cop. They tried the bad cops already. The ones undercover starting shit. Now they are trying to win you over with seemingly good cops instead. You cannot trust police in the crowd. Their duty will always come first. They protect property and the rich and their 8/

brotherhood. They are not really there to support you no matter how smiley they are or how loud they yell with you. Their job is to pacify you and make you feel like you all did a good job today, so eventually you, and everyone watching will get back to normalcy and let them 9/

go back to running things without intrusion. Don't fall for it. This also brings the "see, not all cops" narrative into play, and it delegitimizes the protests.

This is a huge movement. We need to make it count. We cannot do that if we allow this stuff to hurt the cause. 10/10