Routing around damage - Portland

A wonderful solution to a bonehead problem - from Portland station KOIN:

Deputized troopers may snarl MultCo’s protest prosecution plans
More and more questions have accumulated following the announcement that Oregon State Police troopers had been deputized by U.S. Marshals.

The move, which was made in response to the growing unrest in Portland, means a deputized OSP trooper can arrest someone for a federal crime and turn the case over to a federal prosecutor instead of a state prosecutor.

Doing so would essentially override Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Shmidt’s policy of limited prosecution for certain charges related to the ongoing protests. Last month, Schmidt’s office announced charges such as Interfering with a Police Officer or Criminal Trespass would not be prosecuted and people arrested for those crimes would be quickly released.

I love it. The "woke" DA establishes a catch and release policy for the riot kiddies. The Police find a way around this - one involving adults.

Title of the post? Built in to the TCP/IP internet networking protocols and the routers. From here:

The path taken by an IP packet can change from minute to minute. The routers are another example of a distributed, collaborative system. The old joke is that the backhoe is the IP packet's natural predator in the wild, as construction will sometimes slice through an important data cable, suddenly breaking a link in use. The routers "route around" such damage automatically.

Portland's District Attorney is WOKE damaged and the Portland police are routing around him.