If You Decide To Protest But Are Worried About Violence Or Police:

If you decide to protest but are worried about violence or police:

Bring water and Dawn dish detergent in a bottle. Dawn breaks down oils from pepper spray.

Milk cools the burns, but it does not take away the oil residue.

Don’t wear any oil based products. Tear gas and pepper spray will cling to it.

Cover your tattoos. Cover non-normal hair colors. Nothing identifiable should be seen. Blur them in videos. Protect each other.

Soak several bandanas in water and keep them in water. When they start with the gas put one on a keep replacing them periodically. It will soak up and dilute the gas before it hits your skin.

Swimming goggles can protect your eyes.

Put a passcode on your phone. Take off Face ID and fingerprints. Police can get these from you and search your phone.

No face. No case. Cover up. Blur them out of your videos. Protect each other.

If they bring out fire hoses and you can’t get away without being seen, stay low, roll into a ball and keep your back towards it.

Download an app called Signal. It encrypts messages and allows you to communicate with friends. It deletes everything after some time.

Don’t post on social media. Cops will track location and time stamps.

Remember to disable location services on every app. Most apps run location as a back ground service.

Don’t turn airplane mode on so you can keep communicating.

Write the number of the ACLU or a local lawyer that supports protesting on your skin. No one else’s number should be written down.

Lock your phone when filming and taking pictures.

Erase the metadata from your photos by screenshotting pictures. Never post your originals.

Stay safe

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