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It was also in the context of a long history of barricades being put up by popular uprisings and stymying and trapping troop formations.
by throw_away 6y ago
It was also in the context of a long history of barricades being put up by popular uprisings and stymying and trapping troop formations.
- leetcrew 6y agoI guess I'm thinking too much in terms of modern times, where police are mostly aiming to contain a larger crowd. didn't consider that demonstrators might actually intend to trap security forces.
- CydeWeys 6y agoYou're thinking about modern protests that are relatively peaceful and in which deaths are rare. The Paris riots looked a lot more like outright urban guerrilla warfare with lots of deaths, in a manner that is more similar to actual declared wars here in the US (e.g. the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War), not mere urban unrest.