NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Twenty-one people were detained after troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol cleared the Capitol grounds of protesters late Monday night.
According to the THP, troopers issued a warning to the demonstrators that anyone remaining on Capitol property after 11 p.m. would be arrested.
The protesters refused to leave and instead, sat down and locked their arms and legs together in an effort to remain on the grounds, according to the THP.
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Did they at least have common courtesy to take the bodies to the curb for regular Wednesday trash pickup?
ReplyDeleteA few years ago some BLM protestors decided to block Rt 93 (a major north-south limited access freeway in Boston and New Hampshire) by putting their arms into 55-gal drums, which were then filled with concrete. Somehow they got themselves and the barrels onto two sections of Rt93.
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say this fucked up the January morning commute something fierce while the cops tried to move the barrels and protestors. More to the point, ambulances and fire trucks could not get through the huge traffic jam. It was not "just a protest" it was putting other people at real risk.
My suggestion was that the "protestors" simply be dragged to the median, barrels and all, until after rush hour. Fuck 'em if it was a Boston winter day. They assumed the risk. (That was the kind solution. The harsh solution was to ROLL the barrels to the median. Not my problem if a meatbag is attached to the side of the barrel. A 55-gal drum full of concrete has the mass to snap anyone's arm bones.) But I don't make policy in Boston.
Oh yeah, lots of these idiots were whites (or "your fellow whites").