There is no reasonable expectation that your actions are not without personal risk.

You are responsible for your actions. If you don't want risk, follow the law.

But civil rights activists have been willing to trade the risk of personal safety to protest in the past.

What they haven't been willing to do is risk public safety. If you risk public safety, f you.

Because over the years they've watched people pulling similar stunts in the Bay Area get off with wrist slaps so gentle, they're almost erotic in their tenderness. The Bay Bridge protest - one that delayed transportation of a donor organ for a start - resulted in five hours of community service and a fine.

I think actual consequences would be a very rude awakening for some of these protestors.

One I sorely hope they have. People are sick of this.

And kudos to Brooke Jenkins. Since the day she's taken over from Boudin, she has been extremely good at reading the public mood. I'm a fan.

Blocking donor organs goes over the line, and before someone comes at me with „how could they know?“ I say, „how could they possibly rule it out?“

Arkansas Senator be damned.

Although, if somebody died on the operating table waiting for a transplant organ stuck on the bridge due to the "protest," I would no longer take being thrown from the bridge off the table.

but not when it forces others into captive audiences

I doubt these defendants have enough money to make it worth while, but who knows

Damages will be awarded under California's victim restitution laws.