Break out the fire hoses!!!!
I am up in Oregon visiting my mom and was watching the breaking news for close to an hour and kept thinking the same thing... Why are they not simply using fire hoses to control them?
Funny it was like the typical car chase you see everywhere else, but in Oregon we watch them cave to protesters illegally protesting... This ship cancelled leaving port the first day and then made it almost down to the bridge the second day before turning around (in a narrow channeled river) and going back to port. Then the feds closed the river and ODOT closed this bridge before it left in the afternoon, meaning anybody in the water was committing a federal crime and news tonight said two people were arrested.