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It has been one year since the Stand With Us demonstrators began assembling on Saturdays in Twisp along Highway 20, south of the school bus garage, but not everyone is happy about it.
A few people drive buy and intentionally emit what’s called “rolling coal” from their vehicle exhaust. Rolling coal is black soot emitted from diesel engines modified to produce the maximum volume of black smoke. It is used as a form of protest against traditionally liberal causes or as a form of entertainment.
Isabell Spohn, organizer of the protests, said she has video and photographic evidence of the drivers emitting the smoke, but a sheriff’s deputy said it must be witnessed by an officer and images and video cannot be submitted as proof.
Spohn asked the Twisp Town Council on Tuesday for help in verifying the law.
“The chances of collecting evidence of illegal activities such as this seem to be approximately zero,” Spohn told the council.
“If the deputy was correct, I request that the laws be reviewed to see whether they might be out-of-date and whether they unreasonably restrict the public’s ability to report brief and unpredictable events that aren’t likely to be seen by any law enforcement officers themselves, especially since the officers are few and far between,” said Spohn.
“Modifying the engine of a vehicle to allow these toxic exhaust fumes appear to be in violation of state law,” she said.
One hundred fifty-eight people demonstrated last Saturday at Stand With Us’ one year anniversary. Seventeen people stood with flags representing countries the group felt were under threat by the current presidential administration.
A “No Kings” National Day of protest is scheduled for March 28.
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