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Pro-Palestinian Protestor Crushes Hand in Unlawful Protests

Pro-Palestinian protests were held on I-880 in Oakland for several hours on Monday morning.

The protests was one of several demonstrations blocking traffic throughout the Bay Area, with another blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge.

However, the shocking story here is how far the demonstrators would go to protest.

Watch a shocking video here of a police officer struggles to break apart the protestors:

Full video player here:

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The protestor is shown in agony as the officers were forced to cut a piece of concrete reinforcement in order to remove him.

The video also shows the officer pleading with the man to simply let go of the rebar, which he refused to do so.

Coincidentally, the protest was unlawful and about 40 arrests were made from the protest.

Fox News provides more on the techniques by the protestors and on the charges:

The video shows a man’s hand pushed through a pipe and held down with concrete inside a 55-gallon drum. An officer is seen unscrewing a screw to try to pull out the man’s hand. The officer yells “Let go! Let go of the bar!” several times and the man is heard screaming “Ow, ow, ow! The rebar is cutting me. Stop! Stop!”

This is a form of the “sleeping dragon” maneuver used by protesters to hinder their removal from a site. The traditional sleeping dragon is when a series of protesters handcuff themselves together through PVC pipe, which prevents police from simply using bolt cutters to break the handcuffs.

The California Highway Patrol released all the various charges they will be recommending to prosecutors, including unlawful assembly, refusal to comply with a lawful order, resisting, false imprisonment and unlawful to stop on a bridge.

While the protestors were hoping to accomplish something, they honestly just annoyed commuters, who took to X to voice their annoyance:

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People need to realize there is a right way to demonstrate their beliefs, and disrupting traffic is not one of them!

RELATED:

Pro-Palestinian Protestors Block Major Interstates For HOURS, Airport Passengers Abandon Cars and Walk

Remember the “Summer of Love” in 2020?

Feels to me like we’re about to repeat history with mass chaos taking over the USA right in time for another election.

The latest?

Absolute anarchy as Pro-Palestinian protestors (say that 3 times fast) blocked major interstates for hours, causing serious issues in many major U.S. cities.

Here was Chicago, blocking access to O’Hare Airport for hours:

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Police did nothing and passengers left their vehicles (or Ubers) and walked for miles to get to the airport:

Same story in Seattle:

From local KOMO News:

At least eight vehicles appeared to be blocking the road along with a group of people standing in the road. Some passengers could be seen walking past the protest, rolling their bags down the road as they tried to catch their flights.

“Interestingly enough, this is actually something that we’ve done tabletop exercises and plans for because this kind of thing has happened at other airports recently around the country already,” said Perry Cooper, a Seattle-Tacoma Internation Airport (SEA) spokesperson. “So we actually did a simulation of this type of situation where the drives would be blocked.”

Police and multiple tow trucks arrived on the scene shortly after the protest began. Nearly an hour after the protest started, the tow trucks began removing the vehicles that were blocking the expressway.

The Washington State Department of Transportation confirmed in a post on X that both directions of the State Route 518 off-ramp to Airport Drive were fully closed.

According to Flightaware.com, 139 flights had been delayed at SEA Monday night. However, it was unclear how many were directly impacted by the protest.

“The airlines have instructed us to tell travelers to check in with them and their specific flight,” Cooper said. “So that’s up to them as to whether they delay those flights or make other arrangements with those travelers.”

The department said all travelers should avoid the area and use alternate routes.

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“A demonstration has closed the airport expressway leading to SEA Airport,” Sea-Tac airport posted on X at 3:07 p.m. “Travelers coming to the airport were also urged to use alternate routes or take Light Rail and public transit.”

The airport posted an update on X at 6:01 p.m., noting that the demonstration had been fully cleared.

Florida handled matters much differently….

Take a look at police in action!

This was so insightful:

So true!

Different approach from Testicles, PhD (errrr “Tess T. Eccles-Brown, PhD) on Twitter:

Curious to know what you support:

Do you think Drivers should should be allowed to PLOW protestors who are illegally on the Interstate?

We’re taking a poll….please add your vote:

NATIONAL POLL: Should Drivers Be Allowed To Plow Protestors Illegally On The Interstate?


 

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