(RI) Local Ferguson protesters and police clash on I-95

[EEO]

Not the best decision by the protesters. Unsafe and green lights the state police immediately.

http://www.turnto10.com/story/27483599/local-protesters-shut-down-portion-of-95-southbound-in-providence

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. What a bunch of idiots.

Talk about setting your cause back..............

[Fred Sanders]

2. How so? Bringing attention to the injustice by inconvienencing motorists for 20 minutes? Heroes.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Lay down in the middle of a heavily traveled interstate.

Brilliant strategy.

Heroes, my backside.

[Fred Sanders]

6. But that was to stop the traffic..anyone hurt? You are missing the point, protests are inconvenient.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Stop the traffic for...

what?

And it's very fortunate no one was hurt or killed. Who the hell drags their children onto a four lane interstate in the dark?

Acts like this do nothing positive for their cause. Quite the opposite.

[TBF]

14. "their cause"

That phrase says it all. You couldn't be more obtuse if you tried.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. ..but at least smart enough not to sit in the middle of an interstate.

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Howz 'bout u?

Nah, probably not, you're too busy parsing words.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. LOL ...

protests are inconvenient.

Not if done properly! But if they were smart ... they would have typed a strongly worded OP/OpEd piece. That where they wouldn't risk alienating the people that don't give a damn about their grievance!

[hollowdweller]

10. This picture

After what happened to these guys when they did it you would think they would have learned their lesson.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2612703/Rancher-Cliven-Bundy-attempts-defend-racist-comments-negro-making-racist-comments-negro.html

[JC4145]

16. Protesters who block highways are idiots. Just like...

those people on I-5 who got a stern talking to by the man trying to get to work (Hopefully he didn't get fired), or the other protesters who ran out into a road (near Ferguson iirc) and caused a wreck.

They're risking lives and people's jobs.

[Fred Sanders]

17. Gandhi also "inconvenienced" the British...it is the nature of civil disobedience, you seem unaware

of the concept of peaceful resistance.

[JC4145]

18. Should people consider it an "inconvenience"...

to be involved in a car wreck, lose their job, or be delayed in getting to a hospital, etc, due to some people who want to block traffic instead of protesting somewhere like a capitol building, courtroom entrance, etc?

[EEO]

4. When I watched the video and saw the trooper talking to that small girl, who had been dragged...

onto I-95 by a guardian it dawned on me how truly stupid a move it was.

[liberal N proud]

3. Disruption is not a message of peace

[Fred Sanders]

9. The Mahatma would disagree.

[LiberalElite]

11. I agree with The Mahatma nt

[KingCharlemagne]

13. Peace without justice is a hollow and meaningless value. Nazi Germany had peace from 1933-39 and

it had very little disruption also. So much for your 'peace without disruption' agit-prop.