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NEW: This protest is blocking the entrance to Sacramento’s Pride festival, which has stopped the parade. They’re demonstrating against thr decision to allow uniformed police officers to march.
The demonstrators say they intend to block the entrance to Pride as long as they can 
Demonstrators now blocking multiple entrances to Sac Pride, as some jump the fence to get in — to shouts of “Traitors!”
All entrances to the Sacramento Pride festival are currently being blocked by demonstrators, and the parade has been rerouted, it appears.
Update, they are now allowing people into the festival at the east entrance, two other entrances are currently blocked. People in line are asking them to let them in quickly, before demonstrators return and block the entrance again.
UPDATE: and now the entrance is blocked again, demonstrators rushed in front of the line and cut it off, people trying to get in are sprinting around the festival to find an open entrance #sacpride2019
Tensions are heightening as people who want to get into pride are realizing that all the entrances are blocked, there’s some standoffs with demonstrators
People trying to get into the festival are pulling down the fences, and sneaking in where they can, tensions are high
Most entrances at Sac Pride are now open — including alternate, unplanned points of entry — but as this video shows, demonstrators are still blocking some.
They opened new entrances to #sacpride2019 since demonstrators had blocked all three ... protest is winding down now. Lizzo scheduled to perform at 4pm.
Earlier today, one of the Sac Pride demonstrators explains some of their goals behind the protest at #sacpride2019
And this will give you an idea of the turnout at today’s demonstration, which for a a good while blocked people from entering the #sacpride2019 festival. There were people blocking other entrances, as well.
And if you need the backstory on today’s demonstrations at Sacramento’s Pride festival, here’s @SRodd_CPR’s reporting: capradio.org/articles/2019/…
A spokesperson with Sacramento PD says no arrests at today’s demonstration, where an estimated 100 activists remain protesting but are not blocking people from entering the Pride festival
"This isn't Pride anymore. This is gay Coachella. You're spending five, 10 dollars for bottled water." -- I'm going back over my recordings from today and this quotation stands out.
When people realized demonstrators had blocked every entrance to today’s Sacramento Pride, in protest of organizers allowing uniformed police to march in the official parade, I saw a lot of these types of debates over peoples’ own battles for LGBTQ rights
But there was also a lot of this: Attendees trying to break through the demonstrators, who’s linked their arms in protest
This was the moment when Sac Pride attendees, frustrated by demonstrators blocking the entrance, finally had enough and decided to rush the blockade and pull down the fences. This was around 1pm, so they’d been trying to get in for at least an hour
