A particular style of protesting is becoming increasingly common in California.
This type of protesting involves confrontations with public officials, and San Francisco-based political strategist Mike Madrid told KCBS Radio that the protestors invade the personal or private space of the officials.
“Coming up to somebody on the sidewalk, sticking a camera in their face, being very aggressive, trying to embarrass them,” Madrid said. “Something that’s becoming more common is people showing up to elected officials’ houses.”
Police officers and judges have protections over their information, and Madrid said the same considerations should be taken for others, as well.
“I believe we’re at a time in history where we have to expand that to all publicly elected officials, lest we risk somebody getting physically harmed or potentially killed,” he said.
Madrid added that these tactics are non-partisan and activists on both the right and the left engage in them.