Several arrested during protest on Las Vegas Strip

Will this be the next Michael Brown/Eric Garner? Should protesters be arrested for blocking traffic? Who will be found to be at fault for the death?

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/several-arrested-during-protest-on-las-vegas-strip/

Several arrested during protest on Las Vegas Strip

By Blake Apgar Las Vegas Review-Journal
May 28, 2017 - 5:03 pm


Updated May 29, 2017 - 6:09 am
What started as a peaceful protest Sunday turned bloody after a brawl broke out in a crosswalk on the Strip.
Several people were arrested or cited after protesters briefly blocked traffic on the Strip near The Venetian during a demonstration that protesters dubbed “Black Lives Still Don’t Matter.”
The group, which Las Vegas police numbered at 75, was protesting the case of Tashii Brown, who died after police stunned him with a Taser seven times and placed him in an unauthorized chokehold for more than a minute earlier this month after a struggle behind The Venetian.



On Sunday, a fight broke out in the intersection in front of the hotel-casino when a passer-by appeared to wrap his arm around protester Rachel Siota’s neck and take her to the ground.
The passer-by, a shirtless man wearing a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, walked into the street and tried to wave cars through the protest line. Siota said she was taken down when protesters refused to move.
The man started attacking other protesters when they tried to get him away, she said. Several protesters then started punching the man.
Police, who were stationed near the hotel-casino away from the protest, did not start removing people from the street until after the fight. Strip traffic was blocked for about 10 minutes.
Police detained 15 people. Eight were arrested and issued citations, police said. Two people were booked into the Clark County Detention Center, one on suspicion of possession of a deadly weapon and another on suspicion of involvement in the fight.

Dozens gathered about 3 p.m. around a fountain in front of The Venetian for the protest, which was organized partly on Facebook. Organizer Stretch Sanders, founder and president of All Shades United, said before the event that the protest was supposed to bring awareness to Brown’s death.

Publicly released police body-camera video appears to show Metro officer Kenneth Lopera using a stun gun on Brown before punching him in the head and choking him. Lopera is on paid leave while Brown’s death is being investigated.
Sanders and others took to megaphones to share their anger and disappointment. About an hour into the protest, they moved to the crosswalk.
Metro response
Metro Capt. Sasha Larkin, who oversees the department’s community engagement office, said her team was on the scene to keep protesters safe. To ensure the safety of pedestrians and drivers, the department does not allow the takeover of lanes on any road, Larkin said.
“Look, at the end of the day, we support people’s right to protest,” Larkin said. “We want them to come out here, have a voice, carry signs. You can absolutely come out here and share your viewpoint. The only thing that we ask is that you don’t block the travel lanes, and, of course, we will not tolerate any acts of violence on our streets or on the Strip.”
Several people who moved to the sidewalks after police cleared the road were also handcuffed, including Sanders.
Larkin said people were arrested only if they were blocking traffic or physically harming someone else. Many of the people in the crosswalk during the fight were not detained.

Review-Journal staff writer Max Michor contributed to this report. Contact Blake Apgar at bapgar@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5298. Follow @blakeapgar on Twitter.


A punch thrown by a man wearing a"make America great again" Tshirt during a peaceful protest that stopped strip traffic #rj #allshadesmatter pic.twitter.com/P9DsVh3BAe
— Elizabeth P. Brumley (@EliPagePhoto) May 29, 2017

 

Once again a "do-gooder" incites violence by attacking people who are exercising their First Amendment right to protest.

 

I live close to that area and I saw the first ten minutes of the protest, but not the fight. The protesters were not well received in my opinion. The people walking and driving on the Vegas Strip are mainly vacationers from all over the world. They're not interested in having their path blocked by a bunch of hostile people yelling about how they hate the cops. Blocking traffic does nothing to make the situation better between black people and the police.

I'm fine with people holding a protest but the idea of a protest should be to bring awareness to an issue or an injustice. Instead they just brought awareness to how much they (the black lives matter group) hate the police. They have no credibility.

 

You block traffic you deserve to get run down.

There's a great vid with a song but can't find it.

 

heres some of it

 

Are you thinking of this?

 

The right to protest doesn't cover blocking traffic.

 

ah isee the new black panthers where involved video time 1:37

 

[QUOTE
A punch thrown by a man wearing a"make America great again" Tshirt during a peaceful protest that stopped strip traffic #rj #allshadesmatter pic.twitter.com/P9DsVh3BAe
— Elizabeth P. Brumley (@EliPagePhoto) May 29, 2017
][/QUOTE]

Just seems to me a protest is not peaceful once traffic is blocked. This is surely aggressive and not peaceful.

 

of course ... middle class white female. speaking up for her brown pets.

meantime ... she COULD be volunteering in famine zones in Africa (since she's so driven to make the world a better place), or working at a soup kitchen quietly and anonymously .. but no, it has to be the easy, posturing stuff. Stuff that tells your hipster friends how compassionate you are.

 

have yah check out there website as of late?
left handed sniper http://www.nbpp.org scroll down bottom left

 

humm one of ring leaders

 

here he is again on the left

 

ok check this out see how they gang up on the tatto white guy
the black brother in purple shirt was back punching him

 

Blocking traffic isn't a peaceful protest. You have no right to interfere with the freedom of movement of other people. Fact.

 

I love this pic. All the well adjusted people heading one way, and the dysfunctionals heading the other. Says it all, really.

These idiots could be at home studying to gain better qualifications, thus breaking stereotypes and getting rich into the bargain, but no, posturing and demanding is easier. Of course, the two repulsive white 'females' (?) in the centre probably have degrees in gender studies and/or interpretive dance, so they'll be geniuses.

 

check out the feminist witch strangling him with a choke hold see the make America great hat of him

 

Religious lunatics. They're getting as bad as the bleeping Spanish Inquisition.

 

see the feminist witch again in the center https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-co...635425_web1_chokeholdprotest_052817eb_005.jpg
thats the one that did the choke hold

 

That poor guy. I'm no fan of the Ginger Pig, but really, this dude is probably going to have nightmares for the next 25 years. He'll need carefully managed therapy after a tight embrace from that .... creature. Its boobage pushed against him like that just makes it all the more hideously unsettling.

 

she needs dental work bad also

 

Suspected as much. His girlfriend probably likes that sort of thing in his men.

 

He really didn't have much choice in life, with those looks. It was either Lesbo or nun.

 

they said he had a knife i dont see it? this is right before miss feminist piggy jumps on him

 

why is he wearing sandals i got a bad feeling this was staged and whats with all those crazy tattos?