Um, really?

[yendi]

From this article:

"I want to be clear that people have a right to assemble, a right to protest and a right to free speech," the police chief said.
"But people do not have a right to tear this city up. Oakland already has a lot of pain, and it's not fair. This city has been torn up too many times."
The police chief said about 150 people will be arrested by the end of the night.
They will be charged with unlawful assembly and failure to disperse, he said.

Bolding by me.

Wonder if he can throw in "failure to shut up."

Comments

[nishar.livejournal.com]

I am all for free speech and the right to protest. But when they start running over cops and trying to rip guns out of their holsters, not to mention all the property damage... it's time to start arresting people at the very least. If protestors had run over a cop in chicago or NYC... people would already have been shot. The police in Cokeland are being 'nice'.

[yendi]

I'm opposed to running over cops, too, but people who do that should be arrested for assaulting police officers; arresting people for gathering and protesting (especially when they're not necessarily even the same people committing assault) is ludicrous.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

[...]But people do not have a right to tear this city up.[...]

Yes... and if they start doing that, then they should be arrested. Not before.