Trucker Protest

This week we focus on the “trucker protest” that is blocking the Ambassador bridge. The protesters have used trucks to disrupt traffic on the bridge, claiming that they are exercising their right to protest (invoking some combination of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly). What do you think? Can we understand the act of parking a truck as a kind of expression? Why or why not? If it is a kind of expression, what kind of limits might reasonably be imposed on this? And if you don’t think it is expression, then what does that mean for the way police and politicians should respond to this protest?

 

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