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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by koheripbal on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:53PM (#23430641)
Businesses were shut down, by law. Some that stayed open in defiance of the law were fined and shuttered by the government.

It most certainly was not optional.

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Re:Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Espec... by alpha_squared on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:22PM (#23431067)
And the defiance cost them fines, sometimes, not their lives. The protests are addressing compliance resulting in death for a select portion of the population that has been systematically singled out for centuries because of the pigment of their skin.
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