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Poor privileged assholes, what an inconvenience, 8 minutes and 46 seconds stuck in traffic. Imagine that 8 minutes and 46 seconds with a cop on your neck, murdering you. Boo Hoo. Society needs to be disrupted continuously and in every possible way until Black Lives Matter and cops who kill are imprisoned for life EVERY SINGLE TIME.

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And if an ambulance with a heart patient was trying to get through, who cares, right?

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@1 Yeah, I mean, who cares if people die while waiting for an ambulance or a first responder? And all of you losers trying to get to the hospital to get to your surgery or your chemo appointment on time? Privileged jerks. Go without like everyone else.

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Speaking of privileged jerks killing heart patients, the Ballard Bridge is a drawbridge. It opens for rich dudes with giant boats all the time.

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Raindrop dear, What if the bridge were up for eight minutes and forty-six seconds to allow some wealthy person’s yacht to pass? No one would give it a second thought, as it happens all the time (and it would probably repeat at Fremont, University, and Montlake).

That’s one of the many reasons why we have Swedish Ballard, UW medicine and NW hospital north of the ship canal, and the many fine facilities of “Pill Hill” on the south.

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You kids better settle down or Mr. B will turn on the sprinklers and then you'll be sorry.

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@7: Logical question, however when it's acting as a drawbridge drivers know about how long it will take by seeing the bridge going up and down. In this case, drivers have no idea how long the interruption will be - so that's the BIG difference. For all they know, it could have been mechanical failure lasting hours.

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Blocking innocent people just trying to get to work doesn't do your cause any good. It just pisses people off. Fuck the protestors. I've had enough. Send in the cops with the big nightsticks and break a few bones.

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@10,

Noone suggested the commuters were racist you stupid fuck.

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I live next to the Ballard Bridge. An 8 minute wait is next to nothing on a summer day. I feel for the sailboat traffic though where 2 people in a 20 foot boat get to tie up traffic on a summer's day excursion for hundreds of cars "going about their business".

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God bless America! Protest is one of the foundations of this country.

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"We're here to remind council members that they work for us," Ewing said, "Like, 'Hey, do you remember what your job is? You're supposed to listen to us.'"

That is exactly the point of EVERYONE who lives in Seattle, not just the protesters. Strauss made the mistake of ignoring the rest of his constituents when he spent time hanging out with the every day marchers this past summer. Seven people should not get to make momentous decisions for a city of over 750,000 people because of one one loud group of bullies.

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@16 you are showing your age. Social media wise it was a huge success. Like I said, you wait that long for a single sailboat on your way to Fred Meyer. It was over and done with within their allotted time they gave themselves. Sorry, bud. Being used to tie ups on that bridge this was no big deal. But look on the bright side, if you were in command of the bridge you could have pushed the button and dumped them all off and gotten charged with your right wing premeditated murder. You could have become your very own Stephen Paddock and lived to brag about it for the rest of your days.

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Recall Durkan and vote out anyone else who will not defund racist, violent Seattle police.

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@ 5 German Sausage. I live a few steps from the Ballard Bridge (in a marina). I climbed up to look at the roadblock. If an ambulance had needed to pass, there was NO WAY it could have done so. Remember the Ballard Bridge? Two lanes each direction, nowhere to pull aside, very narrow? The protesters had made quite a gridlock out of it. And, it was not clear to anyone else that the roadblock would be short-lived. The stuck D-Line bus discharged its passengers (essential workers, I presume, since no one else is supposed to ride the bus anymore) who started to walk acroos, through the stopped traffic, quite visibly pissed and I don't blame them. How many hours had they just spent on their feet, working? Were they going to be late to their (essential) jobs? Only to have the same empty D Line pass them when the traffic cleared. I expect the bus driver probably waited for the passengers at the next stop.

What was the intention of this youth protest? As many commenters have observed, the effect was to inspire ire, not support. IF the protesters had raised a huge banner reading 8:46 of Stillness for Floyd or something similar, perhaps they might have even gotten participation from some of the blocked drivers. But as it was, this action seemed less about raising awareness or converting minds.

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Armed alt-right Covid19 deniers blocked staff and patiences from entering the hospital and that was all good to the trump supporters! Hypocrites!
Why are there always so many alt-right comments in The Stranger? Are they real readers or are they part of the GOP propaganda machine?

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