{"id":180058,"date":"2017-07-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/26\/adventures-in-inventive-protests\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T01:26:00","slug":"adventures-in-inventive-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/26\/adventures-in-inventive-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Inventive Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TIDWVfx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TIDWVfx.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>Protesters in Minneapolis have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/fake-street-signs-warn-of-easily-startled-police\/436208463\/\">put up street signs warning people that the local police are easily startled<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Joe Morino brought an incredulous friend to see the orange street sign he just spotted in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The official-looking metal sign read: \u201cWARNING: TWIN CITIES POLICE EASILY STARTLED.\u201d It featured a graphic silhouette of a police officer, a gun in each raised hand, shooting in both directions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThere\u2019s a side of truth to the sign,\u201d Morino said after snapping a picture of it. \u201cThat tells you there is something wrong with the system.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The sign, which was still up at 8 p.m. Sunday, was one of at least two seen in the Twin Cities Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A photo of the same sign, reportedly near the corner of Snelling and University avenues in St. Paul, circulated Sunday on social media. A Facebook post said that sign later was removed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Each was screwed into upright metal posts in the same fashion as conventional street signs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The signs reference the killing of Justine Damond just over a week ago by Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor. Noor\u2019s partner, Matthew Harrity, told the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that he heard a loud sound right before Noor fired his gun, hitting Damond.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do not underestimate the power of mockery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in Minneapolis have put up street signs warning people that the local police are easily startled: Joe Morino brought an incredulous friend to see the orange street sign he just spotted in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. The official-looking metal sign read: \u201cWARNING: TWIN CITIES POLICE EASILY STARTLED.\u201d It featured a graphic silhouette of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[526,418,590],"class_list":["post-180058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-photographs","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}