Protestors shut down a freeway in LA.
Protestors shut down a freeway in LA.
It's a tweet thread - the last tweet
Ca Highway Patrol press officer says:
75 protestors arrested
charged with Failure to disburse
Shut down every freeway forever, that's my politics
City subreddits are a curse.
Citysubreddits are a curse.Are they doing the usual fantasizing about running them over?
Yes or as close to the line as they can. Most stop at 'I'll immediately agree with the thing completely opposite to your position' but I think we know what they're really saying.
Charged with protesting
Don't they realize the LA county sheriffs department isn't Israel?
I was ambivalent on the issue until this barbaric "protest" forced my hand. Now Gaza will never have my vote.
80% of Americans are only 1 stolen parking space away from committing a mass shooting spree, so it’s not too far off
How much money were the cops asking for?
disburse
dis·burse /disˈbərs/ verb
verb: disburse; 3rd person present: disburses; past tense: disbursed; past participle: disbursed; gerund or present participle: disbursing
pay out (money from a fund). "$67 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed"Well yeah, the protestors aren't the ones paying the cops, that's for damn sure.
That's why they were arrested, 'failure to disburse'.
Have they thought about the inconvenience this will cause? What if there's an Ambulance? etc. etc. etc...
more of this please
Idc what you think about roads and cars and using protest to disrupt everyday life, if someone in your organization suggests blocking a road they’re either a fed or a useful idiot of feds.
why
Everyone involved just got run in. Assuming no one gets it when they check you for outstandings, you’re all in the system now. Immediately grinding up against the carceral state pushes away your people who are willing to protest.
Arrest records are public. Now all these people can be harassed by cops, the israel lobby etc.
Aside from failing the yippie test, blocking the roads is ineffective here. Take an incredibly sympathetic cause like the brutalized palestinian people and demonize it by making people late for work or to pick their kids up in its name.
What does it accomplish? The average highway driver has no way to control American foreign policy. The ceasefire already had majority support. Everyone already knows what’s happening.
Blocking the roads is the most wrong form of demonstration at this point.
In general, blocking the roads like this is the wrong way to protest. It puts you in opposition to people driving (that’s everyone) and only serves to get the word out but only because people are frantically searching “who are these assholes”.
If someone knows all this and still wants to do it, they’re a fed. If they don’t know and want to do this, they’re doing what the feds want.
Before some enterprising poster says this is all respectability politics and tone policing, when you don’t care what people think and need to disrupt traffic, tear the roads up. Literally take hand tools and destroy them. When you got so many people in the march that it spills into the street, that’s great! Don’t make a little pissant line of linked arms across seven lanes, bring a stadium! Wanna show people that it’s normal to do outstanding things because of the insane violence on the tv? Make it normal, with a big crowd! When people see thirty jerks keeping them from buying groceries emblazoned with the cause they’ve been told is wrong and crazy it looks wrong and crazy.