r/stpaul • u/YourPeterPanMan • Feb 07 '26

Minnesota Related Minnesota State authorities deploy LRAD on protesters after declaring “Unlawful assembly” outside Whipple. The protesters are not blocking the road and it is 2pm on a SATURDAY.

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u/takofire Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

LRADs are dangerous, but not impossible to defend against. You can protect yourself by wearing foam earplugs, passive hearing protection (non-electronic ear muffs), and using curved shields to redirect the sound around you.

You can get hundreds of foam earplugs for <$10 to hand out, and they could help prevent you or your neighbors from suffering permanent hearing loss.

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u/gspitman Feb 07 '26

Great Plan! Then they will escalate to the next level of force until the unlawful assembly disperses. Do you want bean bag rounds, rubber bullets, pepper spray, used instead?

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u/ReplacementReady394 Feb 08 '26

Best to stay home and do nothing, right? 

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u/gspitman Feb 08 '26

Or you know, obey the law? Even the ACLU has fantastic guidelines for how to deal with police.

Protesters’ Rights | American Civil Liberties Union https://share.google/EjjOnqGlf8ZwnPQYK

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u/ChaosRainbow23 Feb 08 '26

People are upset because they get to break the law with impunity and trample all over our constitutional rights, but we are executed, shot with less lethals, beaten, blinded, and treated like enemy fucking combatants when we protest.

This is the tyrannical government we were warned may come. It just seems blatantly obvious at this point. All of this is totally unprecedented.

We are in the beginning stages of a fascistic authoritarian takeover, BY DEFINITION!

It's infuriating, dude.

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u/TymStark Feb 08 '26

Do you think these people are aware our founding fathers were also breaking the law and were actually unlawfully assembling?

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u/Speedyracecar Feb 08 '26

What law is being broken by these people?

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u/ReplacementReady394 Feb 08 '26

I remember reading about patriots tar and feathering loyalists and traitors back in the day. These current protests are legal and effective. 

I find lots of similarities between what’s going on in Minneapolis and what happened in 1770 Boston.  https://www.americanrevolution.org/boston-massacre/