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400,000 people peacefully marched in NYC for the Women's March and no arrests were made of marchers according to the city. The biggest thing I saw in my hours
by JohnTHaller 10y ago
400,000 people peacefully marched in NYC for the Women's March and no arrests were made of marchers according to the city. The biggest thing I saw in my hours there was two bloggers being told to climb down from taking a picture 4 feet up a scaffolding (they climbed down without incident). Heck, a couple female NYPD officers were hugging a bunch of marchers just around the corner from that.
You'll get far more arrests when you have someone win the Super Bowl. As such, it's a slippery slope, and people should not be permitted to win the Super Bowl.
Note that there is a huge difference between protestors and anarchists wearing all black with black face masks breaking windows, setting fires, and pepper spraying people. Those people are not protestors. They go with a very specific intention and it's definitely not to further the cause of the protestors.