ExxonMobil Megaload with Police and Tar Sand Protestors in Moscow, Idaho 8-31-11


ImperialOil/ExxonMobil’s ninth megaload on Highway 95, the second largest shipment to date, measuring 24 feet wide, 14 feet high, and 193 feet long and weighing 323,000 pounds, rolled through Moscow around midnight.  But ensuing events were radically different from the previous protest on August 25-26, which resulted in six arrests.  Moscow police constrained expressions of free speech and assembly by not allowing protesters to step into the street and not giving any second warnings before making arrests for which they were over-prepared.

(Video and heavily edited text provided by a megaload proponent)

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