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   Ben Lockwood, PhD (benlockwood@ecoevo.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 10:18:07 JST Ben Lockwood, PhD

   All the cool kids are going floppy

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 10:18:05 JST Miakoda

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     @benlockwood So they just straight up announce this is effective

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 15:44:10 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @benlockwood Being irritated that people don't help you arrest them is basically peak British cop.

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     heredos (heredos@heredos.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 20:19:38 JST heredos

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     @benlockwood@ecoevo.social the cops are really going "don't copy that floppy [tactic]" and i love it
     
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 20:20:54 JST Rich Felker

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     @LaChasseuse @benlockwood ISTR mention in NVDA trainings of some US cops trying to charge folks going limp as resisting arrest.

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     Lilly Hunter (lachasseuse@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 20:20:55 JST Lilly Hunter

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     @benlockwood Haha, well at least the police can't claim the demonstrators are "resisting arrest" 😄

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 20:21:48 JST Rich Felker

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     @benlockwood Like yeah, that's the whole point. All of it. 🤡🐷

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 03:32:37 JST botvolution

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     @John_Loader @moz @tessarakt @benlockwood
     Hahahahhahaahahahaha "a new home secretary will see the problem and act" oh fuck my sides hurt hahahahahah

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     John_Loader (john_loader@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 03:32:38 JST John_Loader

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     @moz @tessarakt @benlockwood I don’t think the police want to do this. Why make it harder as they will then harden their attitude as they get pissed off for the 50th time that day. The fight is with the government not the police. Hopefully a new Home Secretary will see the problem and act

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     Moz (moz@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 03:32:39 JST Moz

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     @tessarakt @benlockwood going rigid is also done, but police have a habit of "accidentally" breaking parts on the people who do that. Floppy is safer, although cops occasionally push holds until the person screams (... because otherwise how would they know they'd reached the limit of motion of the joint?)

     The main point is that cops will *always* complain about protesters.

     They complain when we set fire to buildings, they complain when we queue politely to talk to our MP.

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     tessarakt (tessarakt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 03:32:40 JST tessarakt

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     @benlockwood Seems to be the opposite of "aktives Sperren", which in German law is considered a form of "resisting a police officer", which is a criminal offense.