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Or as Lorrie also tweeted, it “couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch. Let BLM eat them alive.”

It didn’t end with BLM stopping the progress of the parade with a 30-minute chant-and-sit-in, or with their list of demands, which were quickly agreed to and signed by Mathieu Chantelois and Alica Hall, respectively the Pride executive director and co-chair.

The most controversial demand (and the one written in the plainest English and thus not terribly inside-baseball or about “black deaf” signing and the like) was the “removal of police floats/booths in all Pride marches/parades/community spaces.”

But almost as quickly, Chantelois began to publicly backtrack, saying he signed the demands only so the parade could keep moving, but that neither he nor Hall make big Pride decisions all by themselves.

“Who’s deciding what’s in the parade is the membership, and my community,” he was saying late Monday.

It is simply shocking, all of it: imagine a world where a blackmailer can’t count on the blackmailee to stick to his word given when the metaphorical gun was at his head. And what happened, with the parade unable to move and people near to fainting in the heat and BLM refusing to end the blockade until they got their way, were the tactics of extortion.

Now, this isn’t the worst thing ever, and as a friend pointed out to me, peaceful protest has historically taken many forms, and getting into the collective face (of power, or whatever) is one of them.