Officials cancel all "No Kings" events in Minnesota following shootings of Rep. Hortman, Sen. Hoffman
Thousands attend "No Kings" rally at Minnesota Capitol in wake of targeted shootings
Around 80,000 people still showed up to protest at the MN capital today, so I don't think what "officials" say matters.
Yeah, people misunderstand how citizen protests work when they talk about protest organizers like they're in charge. Maybe they filed some papers with city hall and did some promotion, but there's no such thing as "protest leadership".
Yup protests have no head to kill. So try as they may this will continue until we are sure no nazis are inside our political system.
Good.
The social contract is unraveling.
Important comment, this has been fraying for several years and now it’s unravelling.
This will show the fascists that they have a means to shut down all protest.
As a Minnesotan I'd be upset if officials didn't make this announcement. They had an individual who killed 2 people and seriously injured 2 more, whose vehicle was found with No Kings protest flyers, and who had a manifesto that seemed to indicate they had plans for greater violence.
This is the kind of thing people should be warned about. It's not like it stopped any/many from going but they'd be derelict in their responsibilities if they didn't let people know.
Letting people know and trying to cancel a protest are two very different things.
You cannot surrender to terrorists.
Bullshit!
Exactly my thoughts. Like, this should make the protest larger, not stop it. This is exactly what they are protesting against, is it not?
If I am understanding it correctly, a stay at home order was issued because the shooter was still "at large" having shot at authorities and then fleeing. The time the protests was supposed to be was covered under the stay at home order.
I think the protests should happen if at all possible, but I understand not wanting people on the streets when there is a known gunman about.
If the protests against Trump are canceled because his supporters assassinate Democrats, it will encourage more assassinations.
1 gunman, thousands of protesters. Hmmm.
Right, the gunman might run into the crowd and loudly announce that he was going to shoot them before being wrestled to the ground, or the gunman might find a safe perch and fire indiscriminately into the crowd, causing casualties, panic and chaos, then melt away into the night.
Tough to say which one is more likely
Just wondering if you know how mass shootings happen? Cause you listed their preferred recipe.
The stay at home order was for one suburb where the assassin fled on foot.
Can we also cancel all the monarch bullshit this administration is doing too?
Not without killing someone, it seems.
The one in the area of the shootings was cancelled due to a stay at home order, but the one at the capitol 100% happened, although with a different tone and not all the speakers showed up.
They tried! We had the protest anyway! AG Ellison spoke and everything.
The cowardly "officials" cancelled the protests, and 80,000 people proved that they don't listen to spineless Democrats any more than treasonous MAGAs, and showed up anyway.
Craven Democrat politicians need to match the courage of their constituents, or find another job. It's time for Democratic Warriors to step up.
What officials?
Capitol event organizers, who originally expected a turnout of 10,000 people, released this statement early Saturday afternoon:
"Out of an abundance of caution and in adherence to guidance from Governor Walz and the Minnesota State Patrol, all remaining No Kings events in Minnesota are being canceled immediately. This decision comes in light of the ongoing shelter-in-place order and the tragic shooting that targeted two elected officials and their spouses. We are doing this in accordance with local and state guidance given the suspect is still at large impersonating a police officer.
Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the communities shaken by this violence. We are in close contact with our hosts, attendees, and state and local officials and remain committed to ensuring all other events around the country proceed peacefully and safely"
Fair enough. Thank you.
I was at the capital protest, didn't even realize it was canceled until they started talking.
I was also at the Earth Day protest and I loved seeing way more people today. I didn't do the march and it was awesome seeing the march come down the street toward the capital grounds.
I wish we could have had their planned schedule today but I'm glad they still did something and it was a good mix of protest and the somber reality of the assassinations.
I’m very out of the loop with this, I’m not from the USA. Which protests do we like, and which don’t we?
Officials cancelled anti-Trump protests after a Democrat representative was killed. (Trump is Republican.)
Why was this posted three hours ago, after the protests had taken place already?
Sounds like something the king would want then to do.
This is just about the most on-brand thing I can think of for “the resistance.”
If a protest requires permission it isn’t a protest.
In the US, generally, you aren’t so much asking permission as giving notice that your expecting a generate a crowd, despite the phrasing. Freedoms of speech, assembly and association are still a thing.
The purpose behind it is to give emergency services a heads up to minimize obstruction of normal or emergency traffic and to provide some level of crowd control to minimize the chance of flash stampedes. Like if some idiot sets off a firework, everyone thinks it’s a gunshot and started running.
Approval is generally automatic, but failure to go through the approval process could result in your peaceful protest turning into a riot, or being declared a riot.
They were declared riots before they even started.
Protests turn into riots when the police wanted to, exactly then, and very rarely before that point.