The picketing was largely without incident and relations between pickets and police were good. In response to pickets at funerals, Kansas passed a law prohibiting picketing at such events. Counter protests are often organized to be held at sites that Westboro Baptist pickets. The positions were secured with additional grenadiers and pickets. He organised pickets and demonstrations at Employment Exchanges and elsewhere. The strikers resisted being boxed in and fired on two of the pickets, injuring both. Cavalry units also served as outpost pickets in advance of the main body. Sedgwick drove in the Confederate pickets then encountered a larger force guarding the bridge. Violence arose whenever Confederate and Union pickets, or scouts, engaged one another in firefights. They prohibited mass meetings, had their police attack pickets and jailed thousands. That evening he was accidentally shot by Confederate pickets. But on their approach, armed pickets gave warning. The border pickets were held in at least company strength. They were also used for reconnaissance and maintaining pickets. Irving secured a court injunction against pickets at the gas stations and other secondary pickets.