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Pro tip: I stood outside a courthouse in Boise and watched 6 people get their lives picked apart on the sidewalk
Went to Boise for a wedding and walked past the Ada County courthouse on a Tuesday. Saw a small crowd with signs going after a guy heading to a hearing, and a teenager filming all of it on her phone. The weird part was how calm everyone stayed. No yelling, just cameras and snarky comments. It made me realize these sidewalk trials happen way more than we admit. Has anyone else watched a real life call out happen in public, and did it change how you felt about the whole thing?
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simon_coleman21d ago
I read a piece last year about protestors showing up outside abortion clinics and court houses with megaphones, and how it turned into this whole streaming thing where people make money off confrontation videos. There was a case in Portland where a guy got followed for blocks just trying to get to his car, all filmed. The part that stuck with me was how the people doing it said the camera keeps things from getting physical, but the person on the other end said it felt worse than getting yelled at. Sounds like what you saw in Boise is that same playbook, just quieter.
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