The article about this incident everyone is arguing about is paywalled. Can you summarize or drop a pastebin or something? Thank you.
Whoops, you can tell I'm not a local because I didn't realize that was paywalled.
As best I can tell, in 2019 there was a MIRI reunion event at a retreat center called Camp Meeker in Westminster Woods in Somona. While people were still setting up for the reunion, before everyone had arrived, four to five people in black robes and Guy Fawkes masks were handing out flyers and acting in ways understood as threatening, including possibly blocking the exits with multiple large vehicles. At some point someone said there was a gun, but no gun was found. The police responded with a large amount of equipment, including a helicopter and a bearcat, arrested the berobed folks at gunpoint after they ignored police instructions, and evacuated a large number of people. An 8th grade school field trip unrelated to CFAR was affected by this incident as they were at the ropes course when the incident started. Part of the highway was shut down for several hours. The protestors refused to identify themselves to the police and were apparently identified by fingerprints.
For those unfamiliar with incarnation, they strip search you and generally check your nether orifices for contraband as a safety precaution (you'd be surprised what can be stuffed up there), so I'm guessing that's what the protester was referring to irt the whole, "You are complicit in my future sexual assault" thing. I think that some or all of the protestors are trans, so that probably didn't improve their anticipated incarceration experience, as prison is gender segregated and hence based on gendering prisoners, which can be an additional unpleasantness if you are ambiguously gendered or have a different legal gender than felt gender.
I'm going to post a link to all the different news stories on the event in hopes that some of them aren't paywalled. First one. Second one. This one focuses on the experience of the 8th grade field trip that was affected. This one details how much hardware the cops deployed. Mandatory Wikipedia article. Contemporary r/lesswrong post. And here's a contemporary tumblr post. Another news article. Short news article. Timeline wiki for CFAR that mentions both the incident under discussion and some previous drama.
Several links have further links, or information that will probably generate more details from searching.
