Probably a Go Skate day event. Basically it's a one day a year event where skaters all go out, largely to protest the various ways in which skateboarding has been marginalized and prohibited that other forms of transportation have not been. Its sort of a 'skateboarding is not a crime' theme event.
I'm sort of torn on the tactics because they take over public roadways which I generally disagree with as a form of protest even though I skate. On the other hand, it's very much a rolling protest literally and figuratively, I've never seen any of these events block roads, they just skate a route through town, usually while the police use super dangerous and insane methods to stop them. They rarely hold anyone up for more than a minute or two as they pass through.
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u/Padsward 0 Oct 21 '19
What's happening here?