HEMPSTEAD CANCELS WATERMELON FESTIVAL, RUN FOR THE FALLEN; PEACEFUL PROTEST PLANNED SATURDAY
The City of Hempstead has cancelled a series of major summer events as a result of COVID-19.
Mayor Michael Wolfe announced in a letter to the community that the annual Watermelon Festival in July, along with the Watermelon Run for the Fallen in August, have both been cancelled. He also announced that the Juneteenth Parade, which is not a city-sponsored event, is cancelled.
The annual Fourth of July celebration at Hempstead City Park will go on as scheduled, but it will not include a live band performance. The city is asking all who plan to attend to practice social distancing.
There is also a protest scheduled for Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m., which will begin on Sandra Bland Parkway in Prairie View and end at the Waller County Jail in Hempstead. Wolfe said law enforcement agencies have been made aware of the protest, and he expects it be peaceful.
Absolutely Ridiculous….Thres no needs 4b a protest…..get over it.!!!!
If you will look up Shelby Steele on Facebook, it may give you onsite to what is going on and why. By the way he is a highly educated black man, who has studied racism for many years.
So… City sponsored events are cancelled, the protest is not a city sponsored event.
It sounds to me like, if someone had a big pasture and felt like hosting the watermelon festival that private citizens could still gather and participate without the city’s “help”.
Just because the city is not spending the money that they “aquire” from taxes, fees and fines to find the event doesn’t mean it can’t happen without them.
And early on on the COVID crisis, people were actually arrested in cities for PEACEFULLY protesting, not rioting, because their businesses were being closed, for gathering in groups of 10 or more. But it’s perfectly okay for thousands to gather because they’re supporting the liberal narrative that all cops, and according to white liberals, ALL white people are racist.
Not all white people are racist, but some are racist. The same applies to anyone. Your sarcasm is unnecessary!
So no fairs no festivals for why covid?
But we can stand arm and arm and breath on everyone around us in a crowd. That doesn’t make sense.
makes perfect sense, right? cancel events but let the protest carry on.
Well, you can’t really cancel a protests. There’s this thing called the first amendment.
Oh really? Church was cancelled.
Exactly! These people love to make a point using protests. Trump and Abbott chose to reopen the country. Why not protest? They want the country open regardless of whether the people are exposed or not.