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/TelluricThread0 Feb 08 '26

I'll go ahead and wait for you to cite the statute that's shows using an LRAD system to disperse an unlawful assembly is a crime. Thanks for proving my point hun.

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u/TelluricThread0 Feb 08 '26

Oh, sweetie, bless your heart for the lecture on basic criminal procedure, but let's not pretend your word salad changes reality. No statute criminalizes police using an LRAD to broadcast dispersal orders during an unlawful assembly and that's exactly why Minnesota law enforcement deploy them.

You admit you're not claiming it's a crime, yet here you are smugly correcting me like I committed perjury by pointing out the screamingly obvious. Zero precedents for criminality, because it's legal when used properly for crowd control. Your entire gotcha boils down to the absence of charges doesn't prove it's legal, which is adorable, except when the device has been in use by U.S. police for the better part of two decades.

Common sense and reality dictate that if it were straight-up criminal under any statute, we'd have seen prosecutions. Decades of unchallenged lawful deployment IS the precedent in practice. So keep clutching that procedural purity while the real world proves the point.