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Letter: Sheehan, Hawkins right to clear South Station protestors
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FILE. Letter writer says, Protests and occupations are not synonymous. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)Lori Van Buren
Protests and occupations are not synonymous. Protests are legitimate exercises of our First Amendment right as Americans to peaceably demonstrate and call attention to injustice. Occupations are the illegitimate seizure of public space by individuals for prolonged periods of time who commandeer that space exclusively for themselves until their “demands” are met.
Recent events at the Albany Police Department’s South Station where protestors morphed into occupiers highlight the difference in stark detail. The First Amendment is not a license to defecate, urinate and set fires in the street nor to deface and destroy public property nor to defy law enforcement’s requests to peacefully disperse. Those who engage in such actions only damage the legitimate causes