Sandy
07-17-2020, 11:26 PM
It was their fault for being in the way, even if it was their first bath ever. They're lucky it wasn't a fire hose as it should have been.
SELAH, Wash. — First came the warning: A police officer in the small city of Selah, Washington, told a group of young people that if they continued drawing “Black Lives Matter” chalk art on the sidewalk in front of City Hall, they would be charged with a crime.
Then came the pressure washer.
As the 10 protesters covered parts of their artwork with their bodies, a city worker walked between them, spraying away the exposed parts of their messages and sending tubs of chalk tumbling into the street. The young activists, wet from the washing, watched in silence and held up signs that were outside the reach of the pressure washer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/seeing-black-lives-matter-written-120454792.html
SELAH, Wash. — First came the warning: A police officer in the small city of Selah, Washington, told a group of young people that if they continued drawing “Black Lives Matter” chalk art on the sidewalk in front of City Hall, they would be charged with a crime.
Then came the pressure washer.
As the 10 protesters covered parts of their artwork with their bodies, a city worker walked between them, spraying away the exposed parts of their messages and sending tubs of chalk tumbling into the street. The young activists, wet from the washing, watched in silence and held up signs that were outside the reach of the pressure washer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/seeing-black-lives-matter-written-120454792.html