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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The nature of protestors is that you won’t agree with all of them. But that doesn’t make it okay to drive through a roadblock or use your car to move people. You gotta just go another way. And listen, it sucks. I recently spent 45 min trapped on NY ave because of some sort of skateboard protest in the 3rd st tunnel. But that doesn’t mean I would have been justified to plow through people with my car. You can argue in the appropriate public forum about when and how police should close or clear roads during protests but you can’t decide to drive through people if they’re blocking you. Pedestrians have the right of way even when they’re blocking the road and inconveniencing you. [/quote]

Nope. The nature of protest is you get a permit. I have protested many times, with a permit. If you dont get a permit and block people going about their business, you are a jerk.[/quote]

Even if you get a permit you may be a jerk to some people.  I don't really like the road races that get permits and legally tie up access around town.  But that's my problem, not theirs.

Either way, unless you're MPD you don't get to decide what to do about it. [/quote]

Except for a march, most permitted demonstrations would not be permitted to block roads. You would be in a park or asked to keep moving on a sidewalk. Blocking roads is a jerk move, and illegal. A lot of people with a lot of causes live in and visit DC. If everyone protested unpermitted it would wreak havoc on daily life when it resumes its flow.
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Hello, have you ever visited DC? EVERYTHING blocks roads here. Honestly the most irritating one is the Rock an Roll marathon but all the marathons are a big PITA for drivers. Protests also. Motorcycle parades, whatever. The point is I don't get to drive through them if I decide I don't like them or if they don't have a permit. [/quote]

All of the things you list have permits. This march, such as it was, did not.

[b]Even the ACLU, that noted right-wing group,[/b] says what these protesters did to this woman was wrong:

"You don’t need a permit to march in the streets or on sidewalks, [b]as long as marchers don’t obstruct car or pedestrian traffic[/b]. If you don’t have a permit, police officers can ask you to move to the side of a street or sidewalk to let others pass or for safety reasons."

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/[/quote]

What? Is this sarcasm or has the script flipped so much that progressives now see the ACLU as 'right wing'?[/quote]

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