I can't agree with you, Cowperson.
The City eats all kinds of costs for public displays, protests and celebrations and to me, this is like any other, whether I agree with it or not. This protest ran its course, there will be some fines paid but the costs will far exceed what the City gets back.
That's part of what we collectively pay for having a free society. I totally disagree with what they were trying to achieve but it is their right to try it however they choose. Nobody was hurt in any meaningful sense and there will be some new sod there in the spring. I'd much rather that than having some government committee deciding which protests are allowed and which are not, or even worse, deciding that all protest is disallowed.
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