Do you want police extremist units to see you as a “serial protestor”, or a “ringleader”? Do you want them searching your house for evidence because they have you flagged as a probable organiser? Probably not. They film people at protests and try to build up a picture of who is there regularly, who the “ringleaders” are, etc. The other reason is to stop police intelligence gathering. This happens, so it’s best to be safe and stay anonymous. Even if you didn’t do anything but stand near where something happened, they can fabricate evidence once they’ve identified who you are and where you were. What feels like justified self-defence against brutality at the time can be portrayed as irrational “hooliganism” by the courts and the press later. Why would you want to be anonymous, or help other people to be? The main reason is that if things kick off and you’re involved, you don’t want to be identified – that could mean jail time.
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The second goal is to protect each other by making it difficult to follow or pick out any one person in a crowd – this is done by all looking the same.
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This is done by hiding some identifying features like hair colour/length, face shape, etc, and by obscuring others such as eye colour, skin colour, and sex. Masking up at an eviction resistance or a demonstration has two aims – first, to make it hard to identify you personally. Squatters protect their identities during an evictionWhat’s the point?
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