Posted on 03/19/2016 11:02:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) -
Trump protesters were blocking vehicles leading into Fountain Hills in advance of Donald Trump’s campaign stop Saturday morning.
Maricopa County sheriff's deputies were seen directing tow trucks to start hauling the violators away.
Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers pulled up to assist deputies at Shea Boulevard and State Route 87, where protestors, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, maneuvered their vehicles to block traffic.
Earlier in the morning, protesters were lining up in Phoenix in advance of Donald Trump’s appearance at a campaign event at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Trump was appearing with Sean Hannity at 9 a.m. for a town hall meeting.
Protesters were staging in Tonatierra Park and planned to march to the event in a peaceful protest.
They were carrying a message they want Trump to hear.
“We don’t want you here in Arizona,” said protester Salvador Reza. “We don’t want your hate.”
Protesters will march several blocks to where Trump will speak.
“We want to make sure that people know that not everyone is in agreement with Donald Trump,” Reza said. “There’s more than 50 percent of people who don’t want him.”
Trump is bringing his get-tough message on illegal immigration to Ground Zero.
“He’s already talking about building walls, not bridges. In the modern era, that’s not acceptable,” Reza said.
[RELATED: Trump rally to be held in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's hometown]
Trump supporters were out in full force, including Tim Tashio.
"“I want him to undo all the things the previous administration has forced upon us,’’ Tashio said.
Another supporter said Trump is a leader.
"Something we sorely need in this country now," Frank Tortorici said. "He says what he needs to say."
Following the downtown event, Trump will hold a rally Saturday at 11 a.m. at a park in Fountain Hills, the hometown of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The lawman is a Trump ally known for immigration crackdowns that made him politically popular, but they were eventually barred by the courts.
Hundreds of immigrant rights advocates who have opposed the sheriff's tactics plan to line up outside the Trump event. They will be joined by members of a union that represents hotel workers and military veterans who say Trump is using hateful speech toward Muslims.
Francisca Porchas, organizing director for the Puente Movement, a civil-rights group in Phoenix, said her group sees Trump's views on immigration as being the same as the sheriff's.
"We want the Trump rise -- the Trump effect -- to end," Porchas said.
[RELATED: Arizona offers model for how Trump might win the White House]
In an interview, Arpaio said he isn't concerned about violence erupting at the park but that his officers are able to handle such situations. The town where the event is being held doesn't have its own police department, and Arpaio's office provides police protection there.
"If they violate the law, they will go to the tents," Arpaio said, referring to his practice of jailing people outdoors in surplus military tents. "I will have my vans out there to transport people who violate the law."
On top of that, they obstructed traffic, no permit to do what they did, so its disorderly conduct, on top of endangering the public...
I dont know what the penalty is in AZ. I do know that there is a nice place called tent city they can work their fines off from.
Personally, I wouldn’t tow a single vehicle that is blocking traffic. After everything is over these $%^%$ get their vehicles back by paying a small fine. The fine is probably less than their monthly cell phone bill.
Now, conducting field experiments on how well various vehicles resist an M-60 or M-1A1 MBT is a much better idea. It has direct practical application to various on-going operations overseas.
The protesters have a choice - move it or lose it. And, I don’t think the buttoned up tank crew would be concerned with verbal threats of physical violence do you?
The only problem I can see is how to tell the non-selected crews that they don’t get to drive the tank!
Here ya are folks!
Stright from the web site. Enjoy.
http://www.azleg.gov/ArizonaRevisedStatutes.asp
It definitely could...it may or may not put him over the top in Utah, but it is definitely paying off handsomely regardless. Block a road? Anger drivers (even those not going to event)? Try to shut down free speech? Another backfire...
Is this the way people want America to continue to slide?
Cruz has not even shown indignation much less how he could handle the hard left wing anarchy
I can’t WAIT until there are Mex flag-waving HIGHWAY BLOCKS in California by these people and then Calif CROSSES OVER FOR TRUMP..!!
Can’t wait until they do this..!
Catholics have alters, and Californians have CARS.
And you mess with that, and there is HELL to pay.
“The Puente Movement? A splinter group of La Raza no doubt.”
They see the graffiti on the wall. Trump’s coming!
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