Reply #49: This happened to me

[sherilocks]

How should I have handled it?

I went to protest the chimp's appearance at a local airport (Florida). I drove into the airport parking lot, parked, and walked across the empty lot with my sign (not on a stick or anything lethal), towards the bushbots waiting on line to see him. There were multiple snipers up on the airport roof with a clear view of everything.

When I got up close to the bushbot line a local city police officer came over to me and said that if I didn't leave the airport parking lot immediately he would throw my ass in jail. Although I really wanted to challenge his authority to ban me from protesting, I really did not want to go to jail. I left.

Did I have to get arrested in order to challenge his authority to make me leave?