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Dr. T 回收老外新时代
@Comparativist
rehashing comments I made at 2:30am about MK police strategy, which I think is a diff species than we've seen before (warning: many tweets)
2014-11-27 14:11:12
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
@Comparativist
> (a) lots of head fakes. theres's a chicken or the egg? question about whether police show up to where protesters are or vice versa
2014-11-27 14:12:08
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> I saw a lot of what looked like police showing up in 'high ground' spots that they could fight well in, and drew protesters there.
2014-11-27 14:12:46
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> examples: west Soy and Reclamation, blocks from Nathan. Easy prey. No reason for protesters to have drifted that far
2014-11-27 14:14:03
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> Shan Tung & Nathan was just a cauldron, a machine to draw 'radicals' in, wear them down, arrest. Police never used it to charge through
2014-11-27 14:15:09
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> police 'owned' Mong Kok because they were working w/ jiu-jitsu like knowledge of how protesters would react to their own movements.
2014-11-27 14:18:21
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> last night Sai Yeung Choi kept 2/3 - 3/4 of protesters on strategically unimportant spot, 2 blocks from Argyle. Nathan unchallenged
2014-11-27 14:18:33
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> (b) for the most part, careful and selective targeting for arrests. Every charge west of Nathan had tactical objective of 2-3 arrests
2014-11-27 14:20:05
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> (c) much more careful management of human resources. Shifting police in and out, letting them take rests, giving them safe zones to rest
2014-11-27 14:20:57
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> (d) nuanced crowd control; not just kettling, but 'mazing' - it was often difficult to get between strategically important spots.
2014-11-27 14:21:49
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> on the same 'mazing' issue, they kept clashes far apart, couldn't see or hear (Nathan and Reclamation Tuesday; Argyle and Soy last night)
2014-11-27 14:23:12
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> it amounts to something very different than what we'd seen first 50 days, especially idiocy of first weekend.
2014-11-27 14:24:45
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> I get the sense that (a) they planned several days out for weeks, and (b) they're not being managed from Shenzhen anymore.
2014-11-27 14:26:04
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> Admiralty occupiers need to study these tactics. Mong Kok Occupation was out-maneuvered over 48 hrs, not taken with brute force or luck.
2014-11-27 14:27:03
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> if MK strategy comes to Admiralty, police will begin w/ a head fake near Central or Queensway. Divide, then conquer by drawing into Tamar
2014-11-27 14:29:03
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> like Sai Yeung Choi, I expect police will pretend to fight for Tamar to draw people there for a staged hollow victory.
2014-11-27 14:30:38
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> I think what I'm saying makes sense when you consider Tuesday's ultra-violence on Shan Tung and the fact that the battle was for nothing.
2014-11-27 14:35:22
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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> Shan Tung's pepper water & batons were a magnet drawing ppl in to get their asses kick. Police walked through 'front door' 12 hrs later.
2014-11-27 14:36:42
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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I'm certain that if mapped it out, you'd see an inverse proportion w/ the level of police violence used and the strategic value of the spot
2014-11-27 16:04:33
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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Amidst vids of Joshua Wang's capture, note the difference in tactics from a month ago. Concentrated, targeted violence; opposite of tear gas
2014-11-27 20:20:16
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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In Battle of Mong Kok I they were still attacking crowds at large. In II, every charge I saw was coming after a handful of front-liners
2014-11-27 20:22:08
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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In Battle of MK I all of Argyle was a battlefield, front lines came to you. In II it was quite difficult to reach Shan Tung-Nathan battle
2014-11-27 20:25:45
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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. @RichScotford in 90+ minutes in MK Tuesday night, I only saw on real nasty act of violence (throwing a kid against a truck).
2014-11-27 21:18:57
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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. @RichScotford there was an awful lot of violence happening that night, but police were drawing ppl to specific spots they had chosen
2014-11-27 21:19:31
Dr. T 回收老外新时代
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. @RichScotford I didn't even see the pepper water tower - I was at the Shan Tung intersection but ppl said not to turn corner w/o a helmet
2014-11-27 21:20:10