That’s right, we saw this fact in action during the BLM protests when black protestors showed up at Stone Mountain in GA armed to the teeth and the police backed down and got right out of their way. They had a nice peaceful protest by showing the cops they would not bend to their will.
Oh, I’m in favor of removing cops toys too. And crushing police unions, and removing qualified immunity.
But it turns out that yeah, when you have large groups of heavily armed citizens, that cops do, in fact, dial back their violence.
That’s right, we saw this fact in action during the BLM protests when black protestors showed up at Stone Mountain in GA armed to the teeth and the police backed down and got right out of their way. They had a nice peaceful protest by showing the cops they would not bend to their will.
Basically the Stanford prison experiment tbh.