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1 Ta oot TER pT OTR temp Ae AUT At * ww or roth A MANUAL FAR oie od AetLo, FUBLISTOD BY peewee um rier RIL CI COMETS Dre Se wate Sane | a Rd he me ee at ee ee ee Pa, porsible combination is to have a well + -sanised, weil educated movement combined witn “legal poltce tactici." Police Tactics * - -- Once they nave received erders, police ané troops don't care absut obtective of demonstration. They are concerned whether they are cealing with a crowd, a nob, or a riot. Tne authors Gelfine a crowd in wotion as a mob; @ riot as a ctistunrbance of three or more persons who want to overcome any cppocivion to their action cry lawful or unlawful means. fficers find it more practical and less dangerous to arrest prancon citisens at the edge of the mob rather.than a leader or speaker in the center. . Individuals can be controlled more easily than groups. Police officers try tol drive the crowd away from sensitive areas by use of gas, horses (also referred to as cavalry by authors), degs, fire hoses, etc. "Sleeper" elenents cre. sometimes planted behind the police "skirmish iine" to set up a counter de-o.gtration to divert an attacking police unit. ; ‘; . Tne manual toints out thet there is no defence cf.iinst gas attacl: except masks or leaving the area. The immediate reuction is to panic and run. The authors warn against this and urge an orcerly Gignifiec retreat. “The use of cave’. v and dogs is chiefly psychological, "Sone dogs are trained o:..7 to hold, not to bite, but don't count on it. 2 Demonstrators are warned against lying down in front or horses as severe injuries will result. Tae autnoras suggest a “human chain" to withstanc. pressure of fire hoses, but warn that other counterdesonstration oparations generally follow. Tre white participant is regarded as an outside agitator, a Communist, as a light-skinned Negro, and if a woran, i rcostitute.- - VAolence, if it erupts (in the "Deep South") tends to focus on the ynite picwet, You can recognize police or FRI photographers tecause they - take photoes of individual demonstrators rather than of the entire action. ; ~16~