Old Ladies and Guns

I was noticing earlier this evening, that they had three city bicycle cops, and two or three state troopers with an AR-15 rifle and German Sherpard attack dog, to observe the Mueller Report protests at the Capitol. There had to be some kind of threat against the protests, but still it seemed like an awful waste of public resources, to guard some 70-year old grandmothers holding signs at Rush Hour in front of the Alfred E Smith Building.