New protest arrivals draped themselves in national football insignia unfamiliar to veteran demonstrators

Evidence

Then, in the crowd on my part of the highway, I saw something that I had not seen before. A couple of the protesters, obviously part of the “new” group, were decked out in a novel style. They were wearing all yellow and green, with the Brazilian national football jersey pulled tight over their big muscles. On top of that, they had wrapped the Brazilian flag around their shoulders. They began to belt out a patriotic cheer, the kind you yell in the stadium when the team is playing against Argentina or Germany. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 407

Categorization

• QUESTION: The account notes these muscular flag-wrapped newcomers as a visible shift in crowd composition; worth tracking whether this moment foreshadows the right-wing co-optation that later narrators describe.
• XREF: connects to: Seasoned demonstrators taught newcomers that national flags signal conservative politics in protests — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 408; Leftist football ultras provided combat-ready front lines to protest movements — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 345

Broader Connections

• Leftist football ultras provided combat-ready front lines to protest movements #exemplifies (0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 345