03-16-2018, 05:14 PM
Thanks for the link. How many people were on-island and remember the protest to create better public access to Shipman Beach? I believe it was in the late-1980s. Quite a few people were involved (50-100?). They wanted to march down the main road to the beach (the road starts somewhere makai of Keaau.)
On the protest day, they tried to pass Shipman's locked gate. I recall that an African American man chained himself to the gate. He had a bicycle lock around his neck through the fence; the Trib had a photo of him. He stated: "I'll be here as long as it takes."
(If the police wanted to be humorous about it, they could have just waited him out; sooner or later he would have either gotten tired of standing or had to answer a call of nature. They could have then razzed him when he voluntarily took the lock off. They cut his lock.)
He and a few other people got arrested for failing to clear off private property (most people dispersed upon order). I don't recall how that movement started, but it certainly seems to have quietly faded into history...
On the protest day, they tried to pass Shipman's locked gate. I recall that an African American man chained himself to the gate. He had a bicycle lock around his neck through the fence; the Trib had a photo of him. He stated: "I'll be here as long as it takes."
(If the police wanted to be humorous about it, they could have just waited him out; sooner or later he would have either gotten tired of standing or had to answer a call of nature. They could have then razzed him when he voluntarily took the lock off. They cut his lock.)
He and a few other people got arrested for failing to clear off private property (most people dispersed upon order). I don't recall how that movement started, but it certainly seems to have quietly faded into history...