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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lawyer here.

The protesters are using the public space rules DC has.

The megaphones on the ground are not considered abandoned property or litter if you know that is not the intent.

You would win in court ultimately, but do you want to risk going to court over throwing the megaphones away? I know for a fact that they group there protesting has a lawyer on speed dial.

Same thing with the OP's original comment about restaurants playing music. The issue is intent. Could the restaurant simply say that they are exercising free speech? Yes, but if somebody wanted to take them to court they would have to potentially prove they were not doing it just to make a more pleasant dining experience.

The issue here is intent and MPD does not bother themselves with that. The courts do.[/quote]

I wonder if you could find out who the leader of the protests is and set up similarly loud sirens outside of their home as a protest to their protest [/quote]

You could if you could make the protest political. You can't just annoy someone from the sidewalk in front of their house. Again, these protesters are walking the line of saying they are being political, free speech, use of public space and well...laziness.

They are very careful not to touch the Embassy property where Secret Service would get involved. Right now this is strictly an MPD matter and we all know MPD is not going to do anything to a non violent protest.

Believe it or not the OP's best bet would be to contact anybody in the Israeli embassy and have them report the unattended microphones as potential abandoned explosives. MPD would eventually make somebody hold the microphones if they wanted to continue using them.

But remember, the embassy staff cannot hear the wailing from inside their blast proof walls. The protest is purely theatrics without any regard for the neighbors of the embassy. But then, that is the point.[/quote]

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