Protest threats, detection, protection and (counter) moves

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The tables were initially filled with items from excited delirium (a protestor’s guide to “less-lethal” police weaponry), then further investigated and added to.

Electrical

Weapon More information Attacks/Impact Protection
Stun guns (tasers) Stun guns are less-lethal weapons that use electricity to hurt or incapacitate their victims. Both stinger and taser have two modes: projectile and "drive stun". The projectile method works by shooting darts (2 for taser, 2 or 4 for stinger) into the target that are attached by insulated wires to the base unit In projectile mode, both use Electro-Muscular Disruption (EMD) technology to cause Neuromuscular Incapacitation (NMI) in their targets. After a half-second, the pain is nearly unbearable and causes muscle contractions. After 2-3 seconds, the subject is dazed and dropped to the ground. More than 3 seconds completely disorients a person and causes them to stay on the ground, risking breathing impairment and heart damage.

In drive stun mode, the stun gun runs electricity between two points in the gun itself and becomes, essentially, a cattle prod. This can cause burning, intense pain, and scarring, but is a pain-compliance weapon (as compared to the projectile mode, which will take anyone down, regardless of their pain tolerance).

With the newer TASERs, at least, you can’t just allow the prongs to not penetrate into your skin because of their “shaped pulses” that somehow shock you through clothing. Further, it’s

been suggested that you can’t just complete the prongs circuit, because if the prongs are in you, you’ll get shocked and/or burned. While we’ve found no information on DIY methods being tested, we did run across the commercial product announced early in 2008, a fabric called ThorShield, manufactured by G2 Consulting and distributed by Point Blank Solutions Inc. It is only available to law enforcement, military, and manufacturers of products for those two categories. But their patent #7284280 (http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7284280.html) is online and we can learn from that.

Stun shield Example Example Example
Taser XRep Example Example Example

Chemical

Weapon More information Header text Protection
CS Example Example Example
CN Example Example Example
CR Example Example Example
OC (Pepper spray) Example Example Example
PAVA Example Example Example

Impact weapons

Build armour protecting your head, collar and shoulder, and kidneys and knees. Motocross armor is pretty amazing stuff, light and fairly low-profile under other clothing. Reinforce a banner to double as lightweight shield.

Launchers

Weapon More information Header text Protection
Riot guns Example Example Example
Sprays Example Example Example

Projectiles

Weapon More information Header text Protection
Chemical weapon canisters Example Example Example
Muzzle blasts Example Example Example
Rubber balls Example Example Example
Baton rounds Example Example Protect your knees
Bean bags Example Example Example
Pepperballs Example Example Example
Bolo Example Example Example
Flash-bang Example Example Example

Melee

Weapon More information Header text Protection
Batons Example Example Example
Close quarter weapons Example Example Example
Orcutt police nunchaku Example Example Example

Other

Weapon More information Header text Protection
ADS (Pain ray) Example Example Example
Water cannon Example Example Example
Electrified water cannon Example Example Example
Sticky foam Example Example Example
LRAD Example Example Example
MEDUSA Example Example Example
Dazzler Example Example Example
Pulsed energy projectile Example Example Example
Vortex ring gun Example Example Example
Malodorant Example Example Example
Netgun Example Example Example
Modular crowd control munition Example Example Example
LED incapacitator Example Example Example