The recent protests have drawn hundreds of participants but remain far smaller than other mass demonstrations, including the 2020 protests against police violence that spurred Newsom to request assistance from the National Guard.
The recent protests have drawn hundreds of participants but remain far smaller than other mass demonstrations, including the 2020 protests against police violence that spurred Newsom to request assistance from the National Guard.
The news is really trying to sensationalize it but yes, it’s by and large very peaceful. Also for some reason, line dancing.
Same as with Portland and Seattle’s autonomous zone, either nothing was happening or the things that were happening was because of the feds
Boredom, I imagine.
It’s not a bad strategy for the protest organizers, though. If you see someone sullenly staring down the cops (who tend to be itching for reasons to pick fights), grabbing ‘em up for a nerves break is a good way to defray the situation — and demoralize the cops who are stuck at work while others have fun around them.
Absolutely, the headlines and reported words don’t match the video evidence at all. The best they had was police pushing against a small group of maybe 30-50 protestors.
That’s about as non-threatening an activity as a group can do.
The world is watching, and everyone knows what opening fire on a line dance party would look like.