If you are wondering why police used such force, here’s the scoop from the Cincinnati Enquirer:
A large group of protesters crossed the Roebling Bridge shortly after 8 p.m., starting from the Cincinnati side and heading toward Covington, according to web camera footage of the bridge. A few minutes later, nine Covington police squad cars drove onto the bridge and confronted the crowd.
They didn’t just “cross the bridge.” They blocked traffic while waving the flags of a foreign entity. 👇
(Pay attention to the lady on the left with the sign. We’ll come back to her in a sec.)
Here is some more context from the police:
Covington police said in the release officers initially attempted to connect with the protest’s organizer but were ‘met with open hostility and threatening behavior.’
‘While the department supports the public’s right to peaceful assembly and expression, threatening officers and blocking critical infrastructure, such as a major bridge, presents a danger to all involved,’ the release said.
Some of the protesters mistakenly thought they had the right to block a critical bridge between two states, and to threaten/ignore officers who arrived to reopen the bridge.
One person who marched on the bridge, Gracie Shanklin, said she thought the organizers had a permit to march on the roadway. Within seconds of police arriving and ordering the crowd to disperse onto the sidewalks, she realized that was not the case.
Life comes at ya fast, Gracie.
This particular woke road takeover was organized by Ignite Peace, Ohio Poor People’s Campaign, and Showing Up for Racial Justice in support of Ayman Soliman, a Muslim migrant who was detained by ICE.
Okay, remember how I told you to remember the lady with the sign? Well, that 70-year-old Affluent White Female Liberal (AWFL) is my favorite lawbreaker. She cried to local media about getting a cut on her hand after she REPEATEDLY IGNORED POLICE ORDERS TO MOVE BACK AND KEPT APPROACHING THEM WHILE YELLING IN THEIR FACES.
