This sort of reminded me of how protests used to be handled in NYC all the time. You couldn't just like have a huge protest anytime anywhere in Manhattan, you had to work within the rules so the local government could prepare for it:

We already have those concrete barriers that they just put up in some spots in downtown Louisville allover the place since the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and many more were added after 9/11/01. You also couldn't endanger the safety of all the other citizens in Manhattan by like blocking a major thoroughfare or access to a huge skyscraper. To get to the elevators of many a large skyscraper, you have to show an ID.  And major Federal buildings have long had metal detectors or bag checks right after the front entrance (often enough no different than an airplane, many with bins for bags which are scans.) As does the Metropolitan Museum of Art and...etc. Everyone gets in one by one. We also lost a lot of other public amenities for large gatherings like trash receptacles (as did London back in the more active IRA bombing years.)

I don't get how we got to the point where just because of inactivity in downtown areas due to covid lockdown, everyone all of sudden has a right to protest like after they eat dinner, text goes out to come on down to the town square and have a huge protest and if the authorities say no and try to stop it, there's all this outrage that police try to corral them. One group of people doesn't have the right to just take over and hog large areas of the property of commons for their particular project night after night after night whenever they feel outraged.

All's quiet so far in Da Bronx.

The local cable news has a woman reporter standing in front of the Barclay Center in Brooklyn saying she's expecting protest and unrest, but people are just walking back and forth behind her.

They aired NYC's Public Advocate (a paid elected government position and first in line to secede the mayor; he's a Democrat and happens to have black skin as well) broadcasting his opinion from his home, he said something about how the result is an outrage and how no other institution in our system gets away with stuff like the police do.

I didn't check what happened in Chicago but earlier today on the teevee I saw a short clip of this press conference Jesse Jackson gave to discourage violence:

Hah, Charles Barkley:

Note the tweet has 94K views so far

Though I certainly know about him as a celeb, I looked at his Wikipedia to check on his politics. This jumped out at me and I like it, of course

In an interview with Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson on the Scoop B Radio podcast, Barkley said if he ruled the world for one day, he would get rid of both Republicans and Democrats because "[t]hey're both awful", adding: “They fight all of the time like little kids."[102]

From Portland protests last night, arrested Joseph Robert Sipe was charged with attempted murder & 1st degree arson:

Yes! They are. This is good! This is the way it should be!

I don't get the argument that they are like constitutionally entitled to overtake public commons like main streets and highways without a permit and especially at night when a curfew is in effect.

Rochester, pfffffft for now