Protesters finally get to shut an interstate

The authorities in Ferguson totally overreacted. I don't think anyone can argue otherwise. My big problem with the Ferguson movement is there is a lot of false mythology. Brown never said "hands up, don't shoot.". A trial may have helped in the short term, but only a jury of Brown's peers, instead of an impartial jury, would convict that officer.

On the other hand, this whole Garner thing was kept too low key. He did not die due to a split second reaction. And he most definitely did note he could not breathe. Should Garner have been arrested? He broke the law, so no doubt. But he should also be facing those charges now instead of lying in a grave. My fear is that if not for Michael Brown, no one outside of family, friends, and Al Sharpton would have noted his death.

What exactly would you like reformed? What about all these recent cases of black men being shot by police should be reformed?

I'm about a mile away from the backup in East Milton. 93 runs behind my house, and it's always backed up at this time on a weekday down this way, too. But I have never seen a backup into my neighborhood like this, even with the worst highway accidents.

That racism is bad? That the lives of black people matter? I think you'd have a hard time finding anyone who DIDN'T agree with that .

Okay, how is a dude just driving into work supposed to be made to change a police culture they deem problematic (to put it into their tumblr buzzword perspective)? According to the protestors, the solution seems to be a never ending cycle of protest and causing problems for everyday people until, in their fantasy world, every citizen is dying in the streets taking selfies and no work is being accomplished anywhere.

Um...no. First of all that's not how you measure either the success of your protest OR how successfully you're swaying people to your side. If you run up to me on the street and kick my dog "in protest" against, say, police violence--you're going to upset the hell out of me but you're not going to A. Demonstrate any connection between my dog and police violence or B. Convince me--if I need convincing--that what you're saying is true. You're just going to enrage me and very likely get me thinking that your cause is suspect at best. Speaking as someone who has been very supportive of #blacklivesmatter, a stunt like this makes me roll my eyes in despair. One other point--if you're going to organize a high-octane stunt like this, at least TRY to give the impression that there are any black people involved or in leadership roles.The visuals of a bunch of young white people essentially leading a protest like this just makes it extra ridiculous.

It's nice up there, but reality has a way of biting people in the ass. No one is going to care when they're feel like they're being attacked to prove a point. It'll just tune them out more.

As far as I see it these protesters are doing this more out of their own ego of self importance, than rationally trying to figure out the long, hard (boring) way to policy and social change. They've signed onto the "I, ME, WE need to do something now! Anything!" bullshit instead of doing the boring work of building political coalitions, talking to people, funding initiatives, and generally working within the system to change things.

It's not as sexy, and it's slower, and it's harder work. It's easier to do something dumb and self centered like this and then blame everyone for being saps that don't get it. It's them, not you! It's ego fellation pure and simple.

No major change in politics, policy, or social progress came from the bonehead shit these idiots are pulling. And in fact, people much smarter then them, and people that understand how this shit plays out, are already using their stunt against their supposed cause. Good job, you HURT the cause you're working towards. But you get to feel all swarmmy.

and just might need someplace to relieve themselves along with a place to dump out their cold coffee.

If they got a little creative. Do you think any of these protesters saw Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo? I doubt it which is sad.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Z66uN97Ds

Well they are giant babies who can't keep their shit straight

They weren't planning on going anywhere! Oh wait, yes they were!

or housebroken.

And a car accident victim with life threatening injuries had to be diverted to another hospital where he couldn't receive the same quality of care originally intended.

I hope these folks sue these kids for all their student loans and xbox games are worth.

How does this reminds you of Critical Mass? That usually only take roughly 5 minutes passing by intersections on a late Friday afternoon and there's barely any political message (I mean technically it suppose to be a protest, but most ride it for fun). This was blocked a highway on a Thursday Rush Hour morning screaming that it all about their cause.

If there'd been a 10-car pileup due to the weather instead that canceled his concrete delivery, he would have paid them all for not working? Or just any time something happens that would prevent the concrete pour that day, he'd have to not pay them?

Because if it's the former, he's an asshole. If it's the latter, then who cares what the cause is? Would he be interviewed and pissed at the driver that caused the pile-up for the fact that his workers will starve tonight? Does that somehow make a better story about the crash? Of course not. But somehow because it's a protest, we have to find the few situations where a traffic delay has caused inconvenience and highlight them.

I bet when black people were staging sit-ins and white folk couldn't eat their lunch in peace there were kids that had to go hungry for lunch and they made the papers too.

Isn't that held twice a day? When motorists take to the roads in numbers well beyond the capacity, block intersections, run red lights, ignore crosswalks, cause accidents, and prevent emergency vehicles from full speed travel?