RE: Holding the Market on Safety
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The person was correct about the no pictures, but the correct term is "black bloc," not the other term.
Black bloc happens at lots of protests, even 20+ years ago as people protested the Iraq war or the WTO (the battle in Seattle).
There is no centralized "group" that does black bloc, it could be a group of friends, or several protestors, maybe they're just worried about getting doxxed or maybe they're willing to defend the nonviolent larger group if violent counter protesters show up (as often happened during BLM protests when peaceful protesters were being run over by cars and such). You can't know for sure what their plans or motivations are, because so many people do it for so many reasons.
And yeah ...cease fire now.
Thanks for this, @phoenixwren 🖤
I was finally able to find some information online, and that makes sense about having a group of anonymous defenders on hand. There were cameras everywhere so this behavior towards me was definitely misplaced aggression.