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It's the difference between winning and losing. By letting them "win" and walk all up and down the freeway, they actually lost.
Well played, OBird, Well played...
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The State Patrol did NOT want them on the Interstate (trust me). Once they were there, basically none of them were arrested simply because it was quicker to just let them walk back off again, and make sure they didn't get hit & cause a crash scene in the process. Trying to arrest 100+ angry, nutball protesters would've shut that thing down even longer.
Which does a great job of sending the message "don't do this again, and we mean it this time!"
ETA: Maybe they should try a harshly worded letter next time.
To be fair, I strongly suspect the protesters would've PREFERRED that they had gotten arrested....that way they'd be out there longer, been more riled up, more opportunities to claim "police brutality", bigger story on the evening news, and more publicity for them. Don't give in; act like they don't exist and they may be more likely to go away.
It's aggravating in the extreme nonetheless, but still I see why things went the way they did.
It's the difference between winning and losing. By letting them "win" and walk all up and down the freeway, they actually lost.
Well played, OBird, Well played...
Thanks....I wasn't there personally, but heard it all go down on the radio while it was happening. Basic impression I got was that Mpls PD announced they were headed for the interstate, a Trooper LT said no thanks, then they ended up there anyways. Guess Mpls PD leadership had a "hands off" policy....Troopers on scene were asking for permission to start arresting people but obviously that didn't happen.
What a lot of people probably didn't hear about was the protest that was planned on Saturday....intel made it seem like it could be a big one, and they called in support from EVERYWHERE (even rural MN) this time. Only a minuscule fraction of what was feared showed up, and caused about zero problems anyways...even if they had tried, I doubt they would've even gotten TO the interstate this time.
These situations just stink all around....you wanna drag em out of there because it's what they deserve, but then again it's also what they want. Either way I'm tentatively hopeful they won't be causing traffic jams on the highway again anytime soon (I hope I don't eat those words
).