Anti-vax protesters knock down COVID testing site in Union Square, NYC

[left-of-center2012]

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 city’s 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 doesn’t 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

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"... two FDNY firefighters fist-bumping protesters outside a Manhattan firehouse,
and a uniformed law enforcement officer clapping for the demonstrators ..."

Link to tweet

[aeromanKC]

1. Domestic Terrorists

with Hate crimes upgrade

[BigmanPigman]

2. "Uniformed" law enforcement

should read "misinformed law enforcement".

[regnaD kciN]

5. More like "Rudy's Guys"...

[cadoman]

3. lady be like, "you just saw him tip it over, why didn't you arrest him?"

[3Hotdogs]

4. Use'ta be a guy on WABC radio in NY. Bob Grant. And one of his tag lines was,

It's sick out there and getting sicker."

True dat.

[Equomba]

18. Good 'ole Bob Grant, who also said

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]

6. Arrest these @#$&s.

Good grief!

[Gore1FL]

7. It's too bad we cannot force-vaccinate prisoners.

Or can we?

[lapfog_1]

8. should arm the police with "drug darts"

and start mass vaccinations (along with tranquilizer drugs) right on the spot.

To bad there isn't a vaccine for stupid.

[COL Mustard]

13. Corona Can Cure Stupid

But it's a damn hard cure. Oh well...play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[PSPS]

9. When will they admit that these acts are part of a nationally-organized terrorist group?

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.

[area51]

16. +1 n/t

[KT2000]

10. Funny how anti-mandate folks

won't even wear a mask - all around ass&%*es.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I read that Curtis Sliwa

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]

12. The righties use violence as a method of "persuasion".

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]

14. Darn. Just as I was going to stop by to have them check that my microchip is working properly

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]

15. I was hoping that today i would read somewhere that

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]

17. We Can Count on More of This!

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!!!!!