Here in Minnesota last year they planned a protest at the Mall of America.. MOA warned them weeks in advance that if they do they will get arrested.. They protested anyways, got arrested and now are calling it "racism" for arresting them and are fighting it in court..
The problem, IMO, is that Minnesota empowered them a few weeks before that as marched onto a Freeway... Instead of trying to prevent them from entering the freeway, or arresting them, they shutdown the freeway to prevent people from driving on it until the protesters had reached their destination.
Shutting down the freeway.
There's a great story that Bill Walton likes to tell: back when he was at UCLA, he was a student protestor, and he and his buddies blocked Wilshire Boulevard (a major street) in order to protest the Vietnam War, which blocked traffic for miles. Walton was arrested, and his coach, John Wooden, picked him up from jail. As they were driving back, Wooden said, (in his typical mild voice), "Bill, I can appreciate you wanting to protest the war. But was this really the right way to go about it? Did you ever think about people that needed to get to work to feed their families, or people that had to get to the hospital, but were slowed down or stopped? What if there was an emergency?"
Walton confessed that he hadn't considered any of those things. He continued to protest the war, but never again took part in blocking traffic.
