If one person protests a lockdown, does it make a sound?

On Friday in Auckland, New Zealand, police broke up a planned protest against COVID-19 lockdowns. But at the appointed time and place of the protest, police were on hand to monitor the situation, and found one guy. And told him to go home.

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