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Lino Lakes joins Hugo in banning targeted residential protests about:reader?url=https://www.startribune.com/lino-lakes joins-hugo-in-... <br />"The state's interest in protecting the well-being, tranquillity, and <br />privacy of the home is certainly the highest order in a free and <br />civilized society," the court stated. <br />Woodbury City Council banned targeted picketing in 2009, <br />following animal rights protests outside the homes of 3M <br />executives. <br />No protests took place in Lino Lakes this summer, but Swenson <br />said city leaders felt they could craft an ordinance that strikes a <br />balance between free speech and privacy rights. "This is about us <br />seeing issues that have occurred in our neighboring communities <br />and being proactive about making sure we have things that <br />balance everyone's rights equally," he said. <br />Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and activist who <br />attended the Hugo protest, said the ordinances are overreactions <br />and hypocritical. While government acts swiftly to limit freedom of <br />speech, she said, it refuses to swiftly hold police officers <br />accountable. She doesn't think the ordinances will prevent <br />nonviolent, peaceful protesters from showing up at rallies. <br />"People like Bob Kroll take issue with a few hours of an <br />inconvenient protest when we're expected to tolerate his abusive <br />behavior for years," she said. "If Hugo loves Bob Kroll so much, <br />then they should hire him for their police department and he <br />should be fired from the Minneapolis Police Department." <br />3 of 3 3/17/2021, 2:39 PM <br />