Here are the Supreme Court Rulings that are the "Law of the Land" and defend our Rights, such as the Right to Gather, and the Right to Free Speech.
Public Sit ins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Louisiana
Police May not Plot Against a Protest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_v._Princess_Anne
The Local, State or Federal Government should not put "Breach of the Peace Statutes" in place, because they are more likely to incite violence than not
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_v._Louisiana
Police Breaking apart a Peaceful Crowd is Illegal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v._South_Carolina
Most protests don't have any previous organizational structure, so the best way to establish it for the first time is to get people to line up in rows, then give each row of people a flyer to explain what their overall goals should be as a group, This way people can choose to do different things, but be following a main plan within the group that they talk to throughout the protest. Do not try to get people to line up constantly, this is only to create the foundational structure to accomplish a goal other than being loud, not a way to create a regimented force of soldiers. When passing out any other objects or flyers, they should be something that encompasses all the established groups.
The reason you want to make groups is to create more diverse functionality and thought. This does not need to be a division within the whole group, only within the core people that are there first. For example, if there are a group of people with Walkie Talkies in your protest, you would want to make this division within that group of people, so that you could all coordinate different plans. Examples of divisions of labor would be Making/Passing out Protest signs, Giving People Rides or Collecting Emails/Phone Numbers, Setting up a space where people can get water and maybe food, Making videos of specific protesters or groups and getting their names, Keeping an eye on the crowd to make sure no one is bringing like Molotov Cocktails in to start a riot, etc.
If you have groups you can do various things instead of just trying to be some random "Administrative Entity" over the protest. Goals should be to go to Libraries, Universities or Local/National News Broadcasting stations and holding "Sit Ins" or at least "Stand Outsides". These places are places that will get more people to come and join, as well as being more likely to be News worthy.
If you do NOT want to be in the News, use Profanity a lot, put a Cuss word in your Groups name (Ex: You can call yourself the Fuckers and it won't be in the news) and if you want to stay off of Live Broadcasting, write the word "f***" on your forehead.
At least one person should try to get Emails or Phone numbers from protesters, the people there are obviously interested in learning more.
Any goal that you want to accomplish politically should be something you care passionately enough about to make a Pamphlet or a Brochure type thing, at least made up of a 2 pages and folded together to make a pamphlet. Not a lot of people understand that they can start political organizations (look up "How to start a PAC" if you want to make one) or how to run for office in local campaigns. So having information about how to do these things can be extremely helpful.
Protests are not going to accomplish much more than getting the word out, and eventually you have to tap in to Democracy and protest by getting new people in Office as Judges, Sheriffs and Mayors. TONS OF CITIES have District Attorney's that run unopposed. People only think to Vote for Mayor and Sheriff and stuff, they don't think of running themselves, and they definitely don't worry about who the District Attorney is. But that is such an important position as far as deciding who goes to jail in town.
During a Protest, Police should take the role of an outside presence. They do not need to be involved, and according to training videos from the 60s, they are only supposed to put plain clothes officers in the protest. And if you watch the Yippies and the Hippies in the 60s talking in videos and stuff, they talk about how part of the plan was to get the Police to beat on the Plain clothed officers with them.
Police should not take an offensive position, but they probably will. If they do, what they are going to do is a "Show of Force". This will include loud barking, and possibly banging on shields or stomping feet.
If the Police do this, the best response is to get people to start doing some kind of beat. Like even just clapping and stomping "We will rock you" is sufficient.
If the police move forward, the main protesters should not run at the police to fight them. The main protesters should make their way to the back of the crowd to form a ring. If you hold hands behind the other protesters, they will not be so easy to move back, and you will be able to hold your position without them moving you. Having something to create cohesive units can also help, for example, if you have brooms or something, you could work together against the shields more effectively.
These tactics are meant to be a response to police over action, like in Occupy and the early days of Ferguson, not a way for protesters to initiate action against the police. The best way to initiate action against the police is to read their oath to them, or just elect a new Sheriff.
The word Thug actually comes from the word in India "Thuggee". When the British Colonized India, they found that there was a group of people that were not afraid of death, sometimes seeking death in battle or by running off cliffs, and they were known as the "Noose Operators" because they were very good at the art of "Strangulation" which in modern terms would be recognized as "Going for their neck". They would often work as organized Gangs, with district leaders and things like that (Police and Gang structure is pretty much exactly the same if you don't know). They would often split up and line up miles apart on a road way, then they would slowly join a traveling group, each of them pretending to be alone, until they were all together at which time they would lead the people to a killing spot.
The word made its way to America, and Tupac made it popular by inventing "Thug Life", people were already being called and calling themselves Thugs or Gangsters, but 2Pac put it in everyone's face. It originally made its way to America via the Italian Mob, which used their "Thugs" to do leg work.
Tupac realized that his people were afraid of/Believed in the Illuminati, and he wanted to Squash that, and once the president said his name on TV he had the platform to do it. I am not exactly sure who educated Tupac, but he was very inspired by Niccolo Machiavelli, Tupac was even known as "Makaveli". Machiavelli is the founder of Modern Political Science (Called PoliSci by students) and Political Ethics. He grew up in a time when the Pope of Italy would constantly declare war on the Italian city states, and many of the politicians were bought off. A Politician who has been bought off is known as a "Condottieris" or "Contractors", which in Ancient Italy was done openly, not as Bribes or Political Donations.
Machiavellianism is the concept that comes out of Machiavelli's book "The Prince". This book was written as a "Mirror's for Princes" style, which means it was meant to be read by kings and rulers. It is basically a book about how people use political power for personal gain, and it shaped much of the modern western thought as far as "Politicians". If you have ever heard "Politicians lie", that is common knowledge because of Machiavelli's book.
There is something known as "Malevolent Creativity". We all understand normal creativity, where someone uses their imagination to create something, or when someone puts 2 things together and makes something new, or even when someone just does something out of the norm to see if they can. That is normal creativity, Malevolent creativity is different. For example, if someone says "We have a drug problem in our town" and you say "Lock them all up" or "We need to crack down on our people" this is Malevolent creativity, a simply online example, would be if someone was annoying you in a forum, instead of being "creative" and finding a way to ignore them or deal with them, the "Malevolently creative" thing to do would be to Ban them, for being annoying. Most people have the ability to do complex problem solving and be creative, but this other route is taken by people who are more self absorbed aka Low Emotional Intelligence, or No Empathy which could lead to worse, more sociopathic behavior.
Many people think Tupac was trying to hurt people, but he was not. He was trying to teach people about Politics and how bad it was in the streets. If you listen to his music he is never saying like "Go kill people" he is saying "Why are we shooting each other" and "Why are our women getting raped by our men" and "Why do we let ourselves think there is something holding us down"