locked arms during the noon hour Thursday and blocked the elevators. When some people tried to get through the human blockade, they were pushed away.
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Police arrived to close off intersections leading to the sit-in.
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By about 1:30 p.m., the crowd dispersed. There were no arrests.
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So, participants in an unauthorized 'rally' physically interfere with business, the operation of a major building, and push people around.
They cause a situation where police deem it necessary to close multiple intersections, snarling traffic throughout much of a major US city for NEARLY TWO HOURS during the busy lunch period, and NOBODY is arrested.
Just as al-queda do 'dry runs' on commercial airliners to test security responses, so also La Raza is looking at the police response to this and chuckling right now. They have essentially been told that they can shut down a significant portion of the downtown area of Seattle for nearly two hours and physically harass people and suffer absolutely no consequences for it whatsoever.
This just makes me sick.
How many law-abiding citizens in need of Police assistance were either denied help or had to wait longer than normal as a result of the Officers' time and staff being taken up dealing with this as well as their being forced to reroute their operations around this mess?
These losers of La Raza and their sympathizers / enablers are doing FAR more damage than help to their 'cause'.