Bricks, fires, frozen bottle projectiles: the organized tactics of America's violent rioters
Police say the current riots are the most sophisticated and coordinated in years with supply lines, medics and communications.
By Christine Dolan and John Solomon
Last Updated:
June 3, 2020 - 4:37pm
Bricks, fires, frozen bottle projectiles: the organized tactics of America's violent rioters | Just The News
Law enforcement officials across the country say the anarchists who are inflaming peaceful demonstrations honoring George Floyd and transforming them into violent riots are more organized, better coordinated and supplied than any militants seen in civil discord in years.
Police intelligence units have uncovered
encrypted and walkie-talkie communications as well as social media postings that coordinate the delivery and hiding of weapons and projectiles and the direction of anarchists to specific locations at specific times.
In essence, these professional rioters have created command-and-control apparatus as well as supply chains unseen in prior riots that followed the deaths of Michael Brown (Ferguson, Mo.) and Freddie Grey (Baltimore) and the verdict in the case of those officers who beat Rodney King (Los Angeles).
One federal law enforcement official told Just the News,
"The anarchists have upped their game."
U.S. Park Police Acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan said Tuesday one of the most troubling tactics seen near the White House is anarchists trying to grab police weapons during clashes. Other
weaponry, he said, was
being hidden in areas for perpetrators to pick up to use against officers.
"Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street," he said.
In other cities,
stacks of bricks have been discovered in staging areas that end up being slammed against store windows by looters. ...
...The anarchists have "developed a complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different directions of where police were and where police were not for purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit acts of vandalism including the
torching of police vehicles and
Molotov cocktails where they thought officers would not be," John Miller, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for terrorism, disclosed this week....