Swarm-and-disperse water tactics disrupt police response
Evidence
For the especially dedicated yellow protesters still on the streets (now sometimes known as the “dark yellow” movement), this meant that they would not take a fixed position; they would not go on a predictable march or “occupy” anything, but rather swarm and then disperse. They would splash throughout the city until they managed to shut down key buildings for the day. Then they took off. This last tactic was called “leave together”—just as cops showed up, ready to charge, the protest would disappear. Effective at disrupting business as usual, and very frustrating for the police. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 756
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The water strategy collapsed into a losing siege — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 815; Novel aggressive tactics spread across populations through modeled example.