Hmm...they didn’t have the internet in 1775, but somehow the militias were alerted and assembled to confront the redcoats at Lexington & Concord & elsewhere.
Feral youths can create a flash mob by texting. Of course, they know that the po-po will never fire on them, so just like BLM in C’ville they have free rein.
By the time the tanks and gunships are sent out, we will already be in a state of insurrection and anarchy. And without organization, it will be every man for himself.