Black Lives Matter protestors plan to disrupt Twin Cities Marathon this weekend.

[RyanGSams]

Black Lives Matter Says It Plans to Disrupt Twin Cities Marathon | Runner's World

They are trying to disrupt a marathon for no good reason. I hope they all get arrested. I would have liked to go to help the police if needed to handle them.

 

[printcraft]

Because marathon runners are the reason cops are arresting ??????

 

[churchmouse]

Anything to get in front of a camera. This has gotten way out of hand.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Black Lives Matter Says It Plans to Disrupt Twin Cities Marathon | Runner's World

They are trying to disrupt a marathon for no good reason. I hope they all get arrested. I would have liked to go to help the police if needed to handle them.

They're probably fine, but feel free to send in your app.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Pretty idiotic idea to disrupt a marathon. I don't get it.

 

[churchmouse]

Pretty idiotic idea to disrupt a marathon. I don't get it.

It is a chance for headlines and air time.

 

[eric001]

I certainly hope it's an opportunity to prove the 'stupid games --> stupid prizes' line of thought works in real life. Spending some quality time with other scofflaws in the local jail might be good for their dispositions.

 

[17 squirrel]

Water Cannons, I hope they bring out the Water Cannons out of the mothballs.
I miss seeing the Water Cannons of my youth. It's fun to see people tumbling down the street in a wave of high pressure water.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Just out of curiosity, "if" one was going to do it, how could they disrupt the marathon without committing a crime?

 

[Kutnupe14]

Water Cannons, I hope they bring out the Water Cannons out of the mothballs.
I miss seeing the Water Cannons of my youth. It's fun to see people tumbling down the street in a wave of high pressure water.

I doubt water cannons have the accuracy needed.

 

[17 squirrel]

Ahhhh youth.. Apparently you have never seen people shoe surfing , back sliding and wave rolling down the street with the help of 200 gallons per minute at 150 psi.. It just takes the stupidness right out of people, along with knee, elbow skin, shoes and sometimes clothing.
It's hard to keep a civil unrest going, after you get the $ hit beat out of you for a block or two.

 

[churchmouse]

"If" they get a few busloads to participate and "If" LEO shuts them down I am sure the cry's of brutality and racism will resound through out the media. It is a set boys. Totally.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Ahhhh youth.. Apparently you have never seen people shoe surfing , back sliding and wave rolling down the street with the help of 200 gallons per minute at 150 psi.. It just takes the stupidness right out of people, along with knee, elbow skin, shoes and sometimes clothing.
It's hard to keep a civil unrest going, after you get the $ hit beat out of you for a block or two.

Just out of curiosity, what events are you fondly recalling from you youth? I can't really think of a notable event (domestically) where water cannons were deployed against people I'd describe as "stupid protesters."
....especially from the time you were a "youth."

 

[churchmouse]

Just out of curiosity, what events are you fondly recalling from you youth? I can't really think of a notable event (domestically) where water cannons were deployed against people I'd describe as "stupid protesters."
....especially from the time you were a "youth."

I saw them used in my youth. The 60's were rife with the movement.

 

[HoughMade]

Don't the lives of Kenyans who will inevitably win the marathon matter?

 

[Bennettjh]

"If" they get a few busloads to participate and "If" LEO shuts them down I am sure the cry's of brutality and racism will resound through out the media. It is a set boys. Totally.

 

[17 squirrel]

Just out of curiosity, what events are you fondly recalling from you youth? I can't really think of a notable event (domestically) where water cannons were deployed against people I'd describe as "stupid protesters."
....especially from the time you were a "youth."

Well, I'm 57. So like CM I grew up with watching civil unrest on the evening news, and with growing up just outside the DC beltway I was 10 during the DC riots. And I don't have the opinion of the riots that you have, I had family trapped in downtown DC for days over the riots. And I looked at the damage for years after the riots.
After my years serving I spent 82-85 working in central Africia, water cannons were and still are very popular on the continent of Africa.
Believe me it will suck the air out of people causing civil unrest.
With seeing it, you just have to shake your head and giggle just a little.

If Baltimore had used water cannons on the junior high school kids that first afternoon, I'm quite sure it would have put damper on the loot and burn that happened when it was allowed to escalate.
It's easy to think different when it didn't affect you personally.

 

[churchmouse]

Well, I'm 57. So like CM I grew up with watching civil unrest on the evening news, and with growing up just outside the DC beltway I was 10 during the DC riots. And I don't have the opinion of the riots that you have, I had family trapped in downtown DC for days over the riots. And I looked at the damage for years after the riots.
After my years serving I spent 82-85 working in central Africia, water cannons were and still are very popular on the continent of Africa.
Believe me it will suck the air out of people causing civil unrest.
With seeing it, you just have to shake your head and giggle just a little.

If Baltimore had used water cannons on the junior high school kids that first afternoon, I'm quite sure it would have put damper on the loot and burn that happened when it was allowed to escalate.
It's easy to think different when it didn't affect you personally.

Man I can hear the talking heads running their pie holes now..........water cannons. I do agree it would put a damper on the activity's.

I do feel this is a set up but can not see it gaining any positive for the movement.

 

[oldpink]

Attention whores never rest.

 

[Informed Decision]

Question here... Please fill me in. Is "black lives matter " only a rally call or is it an actual organization. If it's an organization , then IF they call for a disruption , then why can they not be sued by the organization that is putting on the race? Seems that kind of response would make " black lives matter" choose better opportunities to express themselves ,in the future.