Protestors jump on cars and shut down Lafayette Road for hours

[KellyinAvon]

Peaceable assembly does not include blocking roads. My comments are in blue.

INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD officers shut down Lafayette Road between 16th street and Cold Spring Road for close to two hours Saturday night as they removed protestors from the roadway.


IMPD said officers responded to an event center in the 1700 block of Lafayette just after 5 p.m. A group of individuals was protesting the evening and were asked to leave.

Blocking traffic, this is a busy area, not good.

Police said the group went into the roadway and was blocking traffic.

Peaceable assembly does not include jumping on vehicles (that aren't yours anyway.)

At one point a vehicle drove close to the protestors and several people began jumping on vehicles, according to a police spokesperson.

Uh, what? How many people have heard of Eritrea? How many know where it is? I do, it's next to Djibouti.

Pictures from the scene show a large group of people holding signs and flags. One sign appears to read “Regime Change in Eritrea.”

Again, what? Eritrean dictatorship is counter-protesting? I'm so confused! Why are they at 16th and Lafayette blocking traffic?

A witness told our crew on scene the group is protesting the Eritrean dictatorship and supporters of the current government came to disrupt the event.

Protestors jump on cars and shut down Lafayette Road for hours

INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD officers shut down Lafayette Rd. between 16th St. and Cold Spring Rd. for nearly two hours Saturday night as they removed protestors from the roadway. IMPD said officers respond…

fox59.com

 

[Expat]

You have pretty well informed rioters down there. I had heard the name, but that’s about it.

 

[KellyinAvon]

You have pretty well informed rioters down there. I had heard the name, but that’s about it.

What is going on here?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I never realized there was a large Eritrean population over there.

 

[Cavman]

Idiots will do idiot things.. these "people " who always are so concerned about the well being of other lives in other countries should put their money where their mouth is. Go be missionaries or join green peace. Just get out

 

[KellyinAvon]

I never realized there was a large Eritrean population over there.

Looks like the one in London was the same time as here. Others in Israel and Sweden earlier in the year.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Is this "Wag the dog"?

 

[dieselrealtor]

Chaos & civil unrest is part of the plan of the socialist left, stated reasons for the riots are irrelevant.

Where does one apply to be a paid protester? I have heard this is an expanding field with lots of opportunity to travel, asking for a friend.

 

[Mongo59]

Is this "Wag the dog"?

No, just a little lower under the tail...

 

[BE Mike]

I had never heard of Eritrea and now having looked at some facts, I wish I'd not heard of it. Why would anyone protest in favor of their dictator? Nine official languages! One of the poorest countries in the world! Religious persecution! That is just a sampling!

 

[femurphy77]

When they started smashing in my windows I feared for my life. . . .

I'm getting old, I don't have much tolerance for stupid anymore and a life sentence doesn't sound all that long.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

“Why are you in the hospital”?

“I got hit by a car because i was standing in the middle of the road, protesting a dictatorship somewhere that isnt going to change because a few people in indi-****ing-ana was blocking a road”


That would be like me protesting gas prices in kazakhistan. Do they care? No. Will it change? No. Have i risked my life and pissed off my neighbors to do it. Yup.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

How about regime change right the hell here?

Sorry (not sorry) but who gives a varmint's buttocks about some West African 3rd world poop hole when they're trying to turn our place into one?

Oh and get the hell outta the damn road........... idiots.

 

[klausm]

If you jump on my car you will get my attention, but not in a good way

 

[Leadeye]

The inverse square law protects me from this stuff and I'm glad of it.

 

[drillsgt]

How many that were damaging cars were arrested?

 

[Ark]

Import third worlders, get third world politics and behavior.

Native born Americans don't give a crap about Eritrea, and can't even find it on a map. I went to politics school and I can't even find it on a map. I think it's somewhere in West Africa near Liberia and Sierra Leone and the other least relevant countries on the planet? Maybe?

 

[indyk]

“A witness told our crew on scene the group is protesting the Eritrean dictatorship and supporters of the current government came to disrupt the event.”


I’m going to say no.
From what I hear it started off stupid.
These people were jumping in and out of traffic from the start.
Looks like the news is facilitating their cause?

So they basically started causing trouble when opposition came.
I’m gonna call BS on that.

 

[KellyinAvon]

How many that were damaging cars were arrested?

Didn't say what for,

IMPD said three individuals were arrested.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Important third worlders, get third world politics and behavior.

Native born Americans don't give a crap about Eritrea, and can't even find it on a map. I went to politics school and I can't even find it on a map. I think it's somewhere in West Africa near Liberia and Sierra Leone and the other least relevant countries on the planet? Maybe?

Next to Djibouti and Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Not a great neighborhood...