BREAKING NEWS: Protesters block off the Bay Bridge in San Francisco

I don't get that blocking traffic stuff. I get that you want a protest to be seen and noticeable, but all this does is alienate people who potentially could be open to the cause. Go protest in the streets or at the police station, or the officers houses. You got no right to have your protest affect people's daily commute.

Aside from that, you risk pissing off that one reckless person who don't care why you're blocking traffic and will floor it and run you over and you really can't cry foul if you illegally block traffic on a freeway and the wrong person isn't having it.
 
The protesters apparently drove onto the bridge in five cars around 4 p.m., stopping their cars near the new eastern span tower — one in each of the five lanes. Protesters stepped out and strung chain through each of the cars and across the lanes, forcing traffic to a halt well into the MacArthur Maze in the East Bay.

About 30 minutes after the bridge was blocked, police began arresting the protesters, who were placed in zip-tie handcuffs and moved to the shoulder of the highway so that three lanes could be reopened. About a dozen or more protesters were detained.
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What is the reasoning behind any of this? They really need to re-evaluate some things. Arbitrarily blocking traffic is not a peaceful protest by any means. The minute somebody decides to floor it, don't look to the authorities then.
 
It technically still is the authorities job to arrest the person that floors it on them. But still even if the person that floors it deals with legal issues.

You still got hit at full speed by a moving vehicle and have to deal with the injuries (potentially life threatening or fatal) that came as a result of your actions. The driver who floors it would be commiting a crime, but the protestor provoked it.

Same way if someone approached some big buff dude when he's with his girl and tells him she's easy and that he smashed her while he was at work. It's a crime if the big buff dude puts hands on him but the other guy provoked it.

For every action there's a reaction.
 
babyface34 said:
What is the reasoning behind any of this? They really need to re-evaluate some things. Arbitrarily blocking traffic is not a peaceful protest by any means. The minute somebody decides to floor it, don't look to the authorities then.
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:stoneface:

That person who "floors it" deserves all legal repercussions that comes to them.
 
If they protested at a police station, no one would care. Would be just another protest.

They accomplished their goal, because your talking about it.
 
letsgetit22 said:
:stoneface:

That person who "floors it" deserves all legal repercussions that comes to them.
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As will the provokers of that action. Both actions aren't justifiable, but when these kinds of events aren't coordinated and organized in some way, it opens the door for potential mayhem that can result in some serious consequences.
 
babyface34 said:
As will the provokers of that action. Both actions aren't justifiable, but when these kinds of events aren't coordinated and organized in some way, it opens the door for potential mayhem that can result in some serious consequences.
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How is protesting, ( or shutting down traffic) provoking someone to run you over? That persons life is not in danger. You can't be serious.
 
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letsgetit22 said:
How is protesting, ( or shutting down traffic) provoking someone to run you over? That persons life is not in danger. You can't be serious.
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Do people always think rationally during things like this? How do we know everybody else's mindset? Their intentions? These questions don't usually pop up until something unfortunate pops off.
 
not everyone is operating with a full deck though.

nothing good can come from standing in ffront of a moving vehicle and unofficially saying "i'm blocking your car and you won't do a damn thing about it"

at the end of the day say the person does floor it, you end up paralyzed, they get charged to the fullest extent of the law and deservedly so. you're still a vegetable, and no justice, civil, or criminal is going to change that. 
 
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My point exactly. I'm not limiting it to vehicular manslaughter, but any kind of violence that can arise from people randomly deciding to block traffic.
 
and lets be real here, its a cold world.  people get hands put on them just for looking at someone the wrong way, or for wearing the wrong color in a certain part of town, or off minor petty misunderstandings. we have all these gun happy lunatics in this country as well.  i wouldn't put it past someone to floor it in that situation. a moving vehicle is a dangerous weapon. putting yourself in that type of potential danger is flat out foolish.   you only have one life.  why make that foolish assumption that they won't floor it unless you're superman.

they should be arrested for their own safety when you really think about it.  
 
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