Anti-Police Protesters Make Weary Travelers’ Lives More Difficult with a New Kind of Demonstration
Out of the many protests we have seen against police officers since November, there have been various approaches taken. Protesters in Seattle disrupted a tree lighting ceremony and made children cry, for example. Now protesters in St. Louis are trying a new tactic, one commonly seen in the late 1960s, staging “die-ins” at the local airport on the busiest travel days of the year.
According to Fox 2 St. Louis, protesters came to Lambert St. Louis International Airport to spread their message to travelers:
On one of the busiest travel days of the year, Ferguson demonstrators marched inside Lambert St. Louis International Airport Friday afternoon. They stage a so-called “die-in”, lying down on the floor of the airport’s concourse to spread their message: African American lives must be protected and racial profiling by police must end.
The protests began around 5:00pm and the demonstrators left the airport peacefully around 5:30pm. They arrived and left using Metrolink.
Here’s a video of the “die-in” and travelers just stepping over them and ignoring them.
…regret that I had not worn my heavy weight steel shod backpacking boots as I simply walked eyes looking at the ceiling, ignorant of any stray toes or fingers. They wanted “direct action”, why shouldn’t also have a “direct action” response in itself?
Video is at the below link. I’m also quite sure that a lot of the drivers these dim-wits (believing they are making “a difference”) have held up as they blocked the street would.
If the purpose was to get support from travelers, they failed miserably. However, that’s not to say they went unnoticed.
As any thinking person would have realized from the start.
(H/T: Independent Journal Review)
