Museum of The City of New York

             The Museum of The City of New York gave me a new group of activists to see, bikers, and the methods they used seemed a little unconventional. What they did was dress up as clowns, while a "cop car" followed them. When they saw a car parked in the bike lane, they would ride up to it, and fake crashing into the car, while the "cop car" pulled up to the driver, and gave them a "ticket" "This could have been a real ticket" Says the "cop", and the car owners move their car. At first I didn't know what the clown suits were for, but during the discussion, we figured out they were used to attract attention to their cause, to gain support. I also like this method because it seems unconventional and innovative, a clever way of protesting. Also, clowns are supposed to be silly, so they fake things to get laughter, that may be where that dress as clowns idea came from. I wonder why the people decided to do this in the first place, they must have a pretty big reason why. Maybe they got hit, or hit parked cars before.
            Another thing about activists, is the darker side of the job. Being attacked, arrested, even killed. We saw what Martin Luther King jr had to go through, with police setting dogs to attack them, and blasting them with fire truck hoses. This sort of intolerance is still around today. In one peaceful biker march, police arrested several, and impounded the bikes, even using a power saw to cut the locks on the bikes. On another march, police set up orange netting for preemptive arrests, and arrested many of the protestors. What I don't understand fully is why, they weren't damaging property or people, although they were disrupting traffic, but that's a minor offense. Another thing is apparently they were "disturbing the peace", although from what I saw the video, the police were the ones doing that. I think they were overreacting to the protestors, but I don't know why they were.