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| Protest Idiots Clog Up I-93 In Boston AM Commute |
| 2015-01-15 |
| My roommate's a police officer in one of the affected towns; just got off his shift when this crap started. Lucky guy! Protesters shut down I-93 Northbound at East Milton Square and I-93 Southbound in the Medford-Somerville area during the Thursday morning commute causing major traffic backups, according to Massachusetts State police. Police reported that 29 people from the protest were arrested while MassDOT said all lanes at the Milton scene were again open to traffic by 10:00 a.m. The protest was organized by the Boston contingent of the group Black Lives Matter, according to an Associated Press report. In a statement posted Thursday morning on the group’s Facebook page, the protest was held “to ‘disrupt business as usual’ and protest police and state violence against Black people.” Massachusetts State Police said this morning that the protest blocked an ambulance traveling to a Boston hospital from Easton, diverting it to a smaller hospital in southeastern Mass. The ambulance was carrying a car crash victim with life-threatening injuries. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #14 I heard a report - all protestors released under personal recognizance (i.e., NO BAIL). |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-01-15 22:30 |
| #13 Police reported that 29 people from the protest were arrested Which means their arrest and personal info is now public record. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-15 22:21 |
| #12 water cannon. boston in january is perfect water cannon calibration weather... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-01-15 21:35 |
| #11 Frankly it's important early in the morning to use the proper flare color sequence. Yellow starting 1 mile before the scene followed by greens 1/4 Mike before the scene. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-15 21:18 |
| #10 Chained to a barrel? Perfect time for tear gas or pepper spray! Enjoy the burn! Or better yet, use what the Israeli's call "Skunk" on them, that super stinky stuff they came up with for dealing with yobs. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-01-15 20:34 |
| #9 I'm missing something in the story. How'd they get the drums there? |
| Posted by: James 2015-01-15 19:19 |
| #8 I'd combine the thoughts of OldSpook and Frank. Use a crane and pick up the barrels, very carefully and very sloooooowly, and move them to the side of the road. I'd be so slow that, with a really big crane, these folks would be suspended a couple hunnert feet in the air for oh, a couple of hours. Then set them down under a really big, well lit sign that says something along the lines of "these are the assholes who blocked traffic today". Near the sign would be the extra construction materials for the sign -- 2 x 4s, rebar, etc, all in about 4 foot lengths. Maybe even some leather-handled truncheons. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-01-15 18:50 |
| #7 ya know, when you've chained yourself to a drum, you're vulnerable and unable to get away. The cops need to leave and allow street justice to happen. A road flare can do a lot of social justice |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-01-15 17:52 |
| #6 Easy fix. Snow plow. Or simply move the drums to the guardrail, flip the drums over the rail. Or just leave the little anarchists there chained to the drums off on the shoulder for s couple of days and nights January in Boston... |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-01-15 17:42 |
| #5 Besoeker, who knows? Blacks get in car crashes too. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-01-15 16:39 |
| #4 I'm on I-93 tomorrow morning. I'm packing some countermeasures in my trunk; bet they're gonna love the 40 oz. bottle of my beer piss poured over their heads if I get stuck in one. |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-01-15 16:33 |
| #3 The ambulance was carrying a car crash victim with life-threatening injuries. Evidently the lives of car crash victims don't matter. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-15 16:13 |
| #2 Hard time in the state pen would seem to be in order but it's a good bet they're gonna be released on their own recognizance after a couple of hours in jail and if, big if, the DA decides to prosecute they'll get a slap on the wrist. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-15 16:10 |
| #1 Start running their stupid asses over. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-01-15 15:52 |