This is how it’s done folks. Nobody is getting hurt, just a little inconvenience and LAPD’s finest trying to figure out how to unsnarl the situation.
There is no such thing as an “illegal” protest. Tagging protest as illegal separates protests into boxes - that which is approved by the very forces that are being protested, and thus have become sanitized and de-toothed of meaning, and that which is evil wrong and somehow “un-American.”
Real protest poses a problem for law enforcement and the suits trying to get around the city. This is why the protests of the 60s were effective and the protests of more recent years have been limp. Nobody gave a shit when thousands of people marched against the Iraq war in their special, government-approved areas. Nothing changed. People will care about this and they will talk about it and it will scare them. Because they couldn’t get to their meeting in time, or they couldn’t get their double mocha latte with raspberry syrup quick enough, or because the police didn’t know what the fuck to do about a bunch of people chained together lying in the road in the midday LA heat.
Real protest stirs things up and pisses people off. Otherwise you’re not protesting, you’re just whining.
