Which of the FBI's seven types of protester are you?

Which of the FBI’s seven types of protester are you?

Do you keep a cool head in the crowd, or are you more the “some people just want to watch the world burn” type?

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Edited by Beryl Lipton

As part of their excellent ongoing coverage of the #NoDAPL protests, the folks at Unicorn Riot received a copy of the FEMA crowd control manual being passed around to local cops. In the section of “crowd dynamics,” the manual identifies the seven “types” of protesters recognized by the FBI.

Let’s find out which one you are!

Are you …

The street-fighting man?

The punctual henchman?

The “Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth”?

The FOMO?

The “Got work in the morning so I can’t get arrested”?

The Miranda?

Or finally, the “Some men just want to watch the world burn”?

Or maybe, just maybe, you’re the eighth type, conspicuously absent from this list: the person with a legitimate grievance against authority demonstrating peacefully as per their constitutional right.

Read the full FEMA guide is embedded below, or download a copy from the request page:


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