this guys description is more accurate of the bloc this day. people in the bloc didn't move past police lines by using weapons, projectiles or fists etc..
just something to think about.. [how a group moves as a whole and stays together.]

I hadn't thought about this, but the usual descriptions of 'breaking through the police lines' and the like may obscure more than they reveal.

I guess we feel bolder when we set up these fences of words, and say, 'I am on the militant-active side; they are on the timid-passive side' but these barriers make it harder for other people to join us.

I usually write most of my accounts in the 1st person (singular or plural as the case may be). I wrote most of this account in the 3rd person because I wasn't up for more risky stuff, and I was busy checking the street signs at every turn (and stopping to scribble it down), so I was too busy reporting to really participate.