And many great lifters had better (for lifting) parents and used special supplements.
That means we mortals make adjustments, not go with completely ahistoricly new tactics to try and get strong, right?
And while the law enforcement aspect is certainly a factor, it will not be skewed more into the favor of my purely fictional characters by them waiting until the knocking on doors starts. Being in a weaker position while law enforcement is further conditioned against any sympathy or empathy towards them will not help.
But I suspect that the optics is a bigger issue with them. I mean, calling the fictional resistance "racist" is generally enough to get them to all but jump ship.
But what do I know.
Maybe this will be the first nonviolent resistance in history to win because the consciousness powers that be somehow relent in spite of not even the slightest threat of there being at any meaningful risk of actual danger.