Anti-vax protesters knock down COVID testing site in Union Square, NYC
Source: NYC 'Daily News'
A group of anti-vaccine protesters were caught on video busting up an outdoor COVID-19 testing site as they walked through Union Square on Monday. The protesters marching against the citys vaccine mandates for public school teachers along with demonstrators holding a sign demanding health freedom now appeared to abruptly target the testing site as they walked by.
The protesters flipped a table and knocked down a tent outside a mobile testing van on E. 14th St. and Union Square East, where Linda Lopez was testing patients. They just ran up and turned over our table. They also overturned our tent. They were saying everything we were doing was b---s---, that COVID was b---s--- and vaccinations are bad said Linda Lopez was testing patients. I first realized it when they started pounding on the side of the van.
Journalist Brendan Gutenschwager caught the scene on video and posted it to Twitter, showing two protesters flipping a table and chair, while a third wearing an American-flag bandanna and backpack and apparently accompanied by two children punches the side of the van. They then pull down a tent covering the site while someone repeatedly screams.
A pair of NYPD officers direct the protesters away from the tent, as two more cops join them to set it upright, but the video doesnt show that any of the protesters were detained or arrested. An NYPD spokesman said no arrests were made, and had no additional details on the incident. Gutenschwager also captured video of two FDNY firefighters fist-bumping protesters outside a Manhattan firehouse, and a uniformed law enforcement officer clapping for the demonstrators on the steps of one of the courthouses in downtown Manhattan.
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-anti-vax-protesters-destroy-covid-test-site-20211004-dmu6dkljkje5nazwh3ycibzytm-story.html
"... two FDNY firefighters fist-bumping protesters outside a Manhattan firehouse,
and a uniformed law enforcement officer clapping for the demonstrators ..."
Link to tweet
aeromanKC
(3,327 posts)with Hate crimes upgrade
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)should read "misinformed law enforcement".
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)cadoman
(792 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,406 posts)It's sick out there and getting sicker."
True dat.
Equomba
(197 posts)In a May 1993 broadcast, Grant referred to civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. as "that slimeball and as "this bum, this womanizer, this liar, this fake, this phony."
Or these...
In 1995, the progressive media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting accused Grant of racism and homophobia. As evidence, they highlighted his repeated use of the word "savages" when referring to African-Americans and statements such as "minorities are the Big Apple's majority, you don't need the papers to tell you that, walk around and you know it. To me, that's a bad thing. I'm a white person".
They highlighted his description of Haitian refugees as "swine" and "sub-human infiltrators" who multiply "like maggots on a hot day" and his comment that "Ideally, it would have been nice to have a few phalanxes of policemen with machine guns and mow [gay pride paraders] down".
And of course, there's a whole lot more of the same.
tosh
(4,424 posts)Good grief!
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)Or can we?
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)and start mass vaccinations (along with tranquilizer drugs) right on the spot.
To bad there isn't a vaccine for stupid.
COL Mustard
(5,922 posts)But it's a damn hard cure. Oh well...play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)All of these "protests" from this incident to the "demonstrations" at schools, school board meetings, state capitols, etc., are not "spontaneous" or "isolated incidents." The fact that the NYPD is apparently rife with sympathizers/members is on full display here.
KT2000
(20,587 posts)won't even wear a mask - all around ass&%*es.
BumRushDaShow
(129,442 posts)the RW loon who founded and ran the Guardian Angels there and who is running as a GOP candidate for mayor, had been holding rallies and seems to be behind the scenes encouraging terrorist attacks including on vaccine-mandates (despite supposedly being vaccinated) - https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2021/08/06/curtis-sliwa-comes-out-against-vaccine-mandates/5509148001/ and https://pix11.com/news/local-news/nyc-restaurants-struggle-with-vaccine-mandate-implementation-for-indoor-dining/
zanana1
(6,128 posts)They want us to feel intimidated by them. We can't let that happen. When they don't get what they want, they behave like children having tantrums. They have to know that their actions have consequences.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)I'm uncertain because the BORG implants haven't started erupting through my skin, still have both my biological eyes.
But I just got my booster last week, maybe that will get the cybernetic implants going.
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)ARRESTS have been made BUT NOPE not gonna happen i guess. Come on NY let's DO SOMETHING about these terrorists!! (THIS SHIT will continue forever if you do not do anything)
McKim
(2,412 posts)We can count on more of this in the future as they lose the narrative battle. As more of them die and more get vaccinated to keep their jobs, and due to social ostracism their ranks are thinning. So there will be an uptick of violent and dramatic demonstrations by unruly mobs. Their goal is to raise a fuss and get on the news...if it bleeds it leads! I wish the media would cover schools where the mask mandate is working and protecting children. That is the important story!!!!!