concordtom;842115735 said:

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He posted the footage which led to it.

Clearly, he doesn't approve of the fact that people live right in the middle of the street (nor do I) but I kinda have to say it serves him right. I mean, he had to know this was obviously provoking them and so, what did he expect would happen? Duh.

Perhaps we went down to provoke them into behaving badly so that he could capture exactly that.

I would suggest if he doesn't like them and wants them to leave that he possibly go about it differently. Maybe his grand strategy is to provoke them into making the city pass a law regarding loitering.

This certainly shines light on the city of Berkeley - why DON'T they do something?

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Does that mean a journalist should back off when his/her own personal safety would be in danger? Does that mean that anyone who willfully breaks the law gets a free pass because they might assault a journalist?

I, for one, am glad that Stanley Roberts has the courage to confront these leeches.

And yes, there is no expectation to privacy on a sidewalk.

No, the video does not contradict the article. It simply does not support the article. There's a difference.

You have it all wrong.

Play Barry Manilow and Henry Mancini tunes at a volume just loud enough to not be able to tune it out.

Sometimes there's a thin line between seriousness and sarcasm.

FiatSlug;842115922 said:

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You have it all wrong.

Play Barry Manilow and Henry Mancini tunes at a volume just loud enough to not be able to tune it out.

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The local authorities actually did this in downtown Vallejo, except it was classical but it got the desired effect - thugs didn't like hanging there. There is one caveat, this was before iPods and earbuds.

Any way, the kid squatters on the sidewalk clearly didn't get the memo to hang out in People's Park. It's too bad the citizens of Berkeley didn't pass the nuisance law.

concordtom;842115735 said:

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He posted the footage which led to it.

Clearly, he doesn't approve of the fact that people live right in the middle of the street (nor do I) but I kinda have to say it serves him right. I mean, he had to know this was obviously provoking them and so, what did he expect would happen? Duh.

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concordtom;842115815 said:

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How about this - get 40 people to go down to the street and bang drums in their ears, blows horns at them - spray smelling stuff, deliver insects that will go land in their hair.... I'm sure there could be a ton of legal ways to protest them and annoy them enough that they just leave. Go bug them every single day. Any time they show up, rally the troops and go down there and just yell at them. Until they leave.

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So if this occurred and the group of 40 got attacked, would you say it serves them right? This approach seems to contradict your earlier post about the reporter. He was still acting legally.

socaliganbear;842115681 said:

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The Daily Planet did a story about how the decline of Telegraph was overblown and businesses were doing just fine and things were perfectly safe, bless their hearts.

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The Berkeley Planet has never had a clue; why would they suddenly change? That rag has never seen Telegraph Avenue and People's Park for what they are--cesspools filled with human waste.