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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what happened? [/quote]

As I understand it, the woman in the car drove to Wisconsin Ave and encountered the protest. She wanted to get away from the crowd, so she drove thru a gas station as this would allow her to access another street. The crowd moved to keep her boxed in and unable to drive thru the gas station. They wanted the driver to be “disrupted” by the protest. The streets in Georgetown are very narrow, so there likely would not be an opportunity to make a u-turn and go another route. She apparently drove slow and bumped protestors, who were demanding that she stop her car. It seems like she got a block away, encountered the police, and that’s when everyone was detained.

We live near here and the protest passed in front of our house last night around 9pm. It was pretty small - maybe only 20-30 people. They were blasting music, chanting, and generally peaceful. I have no issue with the protests or marching in streets.

My only issue is that they wouldn’t allow this woman to leave peacefully. They purposefully boxed her in and wouldn’t let her go another direction, away from the protest. That’s BS and just causes more problems.[/quote]

There is a recording of a woman who was driving in Fredericksburg with her toddler in the car and she ended up on the wrong street where there was protesting.  She got boxed in by protesters who were hitting her car. She called 911 as she feared for her toddler's life.  The 911 call is on the internet but I could not readily find it.  The 911 dispatcher told
her the police could not assist her and she would have to call the mayor's office.  The driver started crying as protesters were pounding on her car.  She was able to inch forward
and finally turn off but I'm sure it was scary and an honest mistake by the driver.[/quote]

PP here:
That 911 operator was an idiot. If you’re caught in a protest, you pull over the car, turn off your engine, and lock the doors. You sit there for 10-15 minutes until the protest moves on. They were slamming on her car because she was moving closer to pedestrian bodies and moving with the crowd. Just because you feel nervous, doesn’t give a driver the right to continue driving into a sea of pedestrians.

This probably should be explicitly taught in drivers’ Ed in the DC area.

In the Georgetown incident last night, it seems the issue is that protestors kept moving with her car so she couldn’t move away from the crowd. It was a dumb move by the protestors. [/quote]

Pull over, turn off the enginer, in this heat and in the midst of these awful wackos? With a toddler in the car? No way![/quote]

Well I've got to get to Georgetown hospital in a few days for a potentially life saving surgery. If protestors block my way I'm sorry but it's their life or mine, and it's going to be theirs.[/quote]

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