Black Lives Matter targets a white person and blocks his usage of a side walk

[Cerus]

They were protesting. It is not illegal to do it on a sidewalk.

It is when you violate someones constitutionally protected right to freedom of movement.

[TheMediator]

constitutionally protected right to freedom of movement.

Which Amendment is that again?

(not that I don't think it is illegal to INTENTIONALLY prevent passage through a public space, but constitutionally protected seems a bit of a stretch there buckaroo)

[Kraenen]

Independently of how obnoxious they may be or how much self-awareness (or lack thereof) they posses, inconveniencing people goes hand in hand with protest. Police doesn't intervene because they're sharing freeze peach around.

Q.
Do I have a right to picket on public sidewalks?

A.
Yes, and this is also an activity for which a permit is not required. However, picketing must be done in an orderly, non-disruptive fashion so that pedestrians can pass by and entrances to buildings are not blocked.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-right...ion-or-protest

[Kathandira]

But it's not non-threatening. They are using the intimidation of numbers to force the issue. If he were to push through the crowd which happens everyday on crowded streets they would have assaulted him to stop his passage.

So, protesting in general is threatening due to their numbers?

[Cebel]

I'll have to schedule time to shed a tear for a person having to walk a few extra feet to get where they are going. All the while black people have to work extra hard just to not be seen as sub human.

Thats not how it works. But okay man you have fun being a racist.

[Kathandira]

If I did that with my friends to a black man, you'd be here calling me a racist, sub-human... Seriously, just go away.

Nah, you have no power over me. Either reply and continue speaking with me, or ignore me. But I ain't going any where. Call this my protest. Hope i'm not threatening to you, or seen as a terrorist.

[Dadwen]

Oh ya ran across this

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/f...r_protests.pdf

Do I have a right to picket on public sidewalks?
Yes, and this is also an activity for
which a permit is not required. However,
picketing must be done in an orderly, non-disruptive fashion so that pedestrians
can pass by and entrances to buildings are not blocked.

[Cebel]

WOW, he had to go OUT OF HIS WAY, WOW.... WOWWWWWWWWWWW. You're blowing my FUCKING MIND DUDE. WOWWWWW

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

Wow.

Meanwhile if white people did this to a black person you'd be outraged. Stfu.

These forums disgust me sometimes. So pathetic.

[Citizen T]

There was a cop right there. I thought we were supposed to #backtheblue and do what the cops say? He said don't lay your hands on them (according to what has been transcribed by other forum posters). If he tried to push through, he'd be refusing to listen to the police, and according to #backtheblue logic, liable to get shot and killed by the police, and if he doesn't try to push through and complies fully with the police orders without making any sudden movements, there is no reason the situation would have gotten violent.

Way to completely try to divert the issue from one of intimidation by BLM (the so called no violent group) to something completely without meaning to this topic.

To address your completely inane point though... You don't have to lay hands on them. Just walk forward and step between people - just as one would do on a crowded sidewalk anywhere. When they close ranks and bump you to prevent your passage, they are the ones now guilty of violence.

Now if they have a permit for assembly in that location then they have the right to limit passage during the period of their permit. Otherwise they are law breakers using racist intimidation.

[Dextroden]

Hey kids! BLM says breaking the law, disrupting order and authority and treat people like trash based on their skin color is cool!

Thank you, people posting the ACLU link.

[Kraenen]

Meanwhile if white people did this to a black person you'd be outraged. Stfu.

These forums disgust me sometimes. So pathetic.

Yeah there's this undercurrent of thought like "well he's white so what does it matter? he's got it good in life so we're justified"

[Pantomime]

It is when you violate someones constitutionally protected right to freedom of movement.

Their what? I'm sorry, what again? Are you attempting to draw a parallel between peoples ability to MOVE BETWEEN STATES to this? Really? Freedom of movement puts limits on what states can do to people coming and going from other states. You sir, are redonkulous.

[Citizen T]

So, protesting in general is threatening due to their numbers?

Nope! Just using those numbers to prevent passage on public ways.

[Kathandira]

It is when you violate someones constitutionally protected right to freedom of movement.

No one was stopping him from moving. He was just asked to walk around.

[Shawken]

Know what would make it stop? Acknowledgment, and Action. If an entire race wasn't damned because of the minority of bad examples, perhaps they wouldn't need this movement.

There are many more culturally ingrained problems in the black community than there are outside institutionalized problems. They would rather blame someone else for poor education when their culture looks down on those trying to get ahead.

[Goatfish]

He had to GO AROUND. Don't you get it? What's next? Who knows? I know that middle class America is grieving the damage done in this latest incident.

He just had to go around, back in the day all black people had to do was sit at the back of the bus. It's not that inconvenient right?

I personally hope people like this accidentally find someone highly unstable or out of their mind and try to pull this on them. Protesting is fine and all, but you have to protest to the people who can actually make a difference or to the people causing the problem. When you are blocking off random blokes on the street hoping to make them sympathetic to your cause, you are going about it the wrong way.

[Kathandira]

Thats not how it works. But okay man you have fun being a racist.

Oh yeah, i'm totally a racist. You must be projecting.

[Kraenen]

No one was stopping him from moving. He was just asked to walk around.

This is sig worthy, rofl...

No one was stopping his free movement, he just needed to go around the people blocking him!

[Pantomime]

Meanwhile if white people did this to a black person you'd be outraged. Stfu.

These forums disgust me sometimes. So pathetic.

Outraged? No. Would I think it's silly? Yes. Denying the existence of white privilege is asinine. What on earth would these white people be protesting?

[TheMediator]

Way to completely try to divert the issue from one of intimidation by BLM (the so called no violent group) to something completely without meaning to this topic.

No, it's pretty straight forward. A police officer, the so-called heroes in the struggle against BLM, told him not to lay hands on them. He should quietly, without making any sudden movements (trying to find a hole to quickly step through is a sudden movement, so that's a no-go on that), comply fully with police commands or else he's guilty and deserves to be shot. It's pretty much bullet-proof #backtheblue logic at that point. You're just uncomfortable because it's turned around to support BLM.