Posted on 06/10/2019 6:50:02 AM PDT by simpson96
SALT LAKE CITY — Seconds after the Utah Inland Port Authority's meeting began Wednesday, chaos erupted.
Protesters with the group Civil Riot swarmed the port board meeting — many wearing surgical face masks marked with an "X" — ran to the front of the committee room at the Utah State Capitol, some locking arms as nearly a dozen Utah Highway Patrol troopers jumped into action to escort them out for violating rules of decorum.
"We are here to stop the port," one female protester shouted. "Your meeting failed because it will destroy our communities. This is not OK."
Nearly a dozen troopers, who were standing at the ready even before the meeting started, began forcibly removing those who resisted. Derek Miller, the port authority's board chairman, told board members to exit the room through a back door.
"Look, we're not going anywhere, OK?" a lead protester, Ethan Petersen, shouted from the back of the room, where he was handcuffed to a door handle. "We're not going anywhere. This meeting's done."
Petersen continued shouting as several troopers began forcing him out of the room.
"This project is environmentally destructive," Petersen yelled. "It will exacerbate climate change. This is destruction of the planet. we're not going to allow it anymore. You don't represent us."
Troopers told Petersen to "stop" as they wrestled him in the hallway, where he laid down on his back. Troopers eventually arrested him, placing him in handcuffs before carrying him to an elevator.
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When the Grand Canyon was just a drainage ditch.
Notice they are almost all hispanic or latino? Is this some fifth column effort to undermine the US, from a local or state level. Sort of serves Mormons right for encouraging immigration, legal and illegal, to now have those same people try to destroy the local economy and development.
Thanks, always nice to hear positive comments where “the Mormons” are concerned.
Use straight jackets not handcuffs. More accurate optics
That’s the odd thing about the GSL. The level is anything but constant. Some years back, the PTB had ti install some massive pumps to keep it under control.
Personally, I think this is stupid as the area chosen would be subject o flooding in wet years and has a very high water table - making foundations iffy.
But stupid has never stopped the Utah “business men” who will profit nicely from the Gov’t money flowing into this project.
Show them the area, they’ll show you the endangered creature.
Not “despite” but rather “because of”.
Mitt Romney is not an aberration. He is instead a typical representative of the Mormon leadership.
Pope Francis is typical of the majority of nominal Catholics.
My observation as well. If Roman Catholics OR two major Protestant sects (say Baptists and Lutherans) voted like Mormons, then the Democrats would still be in the JFK mainstream and the loony left would still be on the fringe rather than in solid control of the party.
There would be fewer Somalis in Maine and Minnesota than Laotians.
Utah port authority? They finally sold that beachfront property?
Leftists solve nothing and are pitifully regressive.I do know some of the most important decisions in our lives can come from local government. There simply has to be a balance of community progress/sustainability and preserving our beautiful environment. True “environmentalists” are conservatives but it seems Utah is slowly being California-cated.
The usual obstructionist gang of unemoployed fat, ugly women, refugees from a commune, and antifa fags looking to break stuff.
“Notice they are almost all hispanic or latino?”
Welcome to Utah and Salt Lake City. Sanctuary state and city. Spend a week listening to the TV crime reports and you will notice a trend.
Are Democrats ugly because they are DEMOCRATS, or are they Democrats because they are UGLY?? Which came first
“How many container ships per month are they expecting once they open the port?
When did Utah connect with an ocean? I suppose that news event got buried somehow.”
More like the intersection of I-80 and I-15 along with railroads and an airport undergoing a major expansion. I heard a report that UPS was having the the largest building west of the Mississippi being built in the area.
Hi.
Help me here, “UTAH PORT authority!?”
What ports, oceans, gulfs etc.?
The “Great salt lake?”
5.56mm
Help, help, I’m being repressed!
A very much inland airport can be designated by US Customs Service as a “Port of Entry”.
“airport”
Port of entry.
Good point, makes sense.
Don’t need water.
5.56mm
bttt
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