Anti-Vaccine Protesters Demolish A COVID-19 Testing Site For No Logical Reason
Image: @BGOnTheScene via Twitter
A so-called “Teacher’s Protest” Monday against the vaccination mandates for public school teachers and staff may not have been much of a “Teacher’s Protest” — considering its keynote speaker was the founder of a Black Trumper organization who just did two years time on conspiracy charges (Trump pardoned her). She is certainly not a teacher. But an anti-vaccine protest claiming to be a coalition of New York City public school teachers went down Monday, and so did a free community COVID-19 testing center. Because the anti-vaccine protesters tried to destroy it.
Two of the marchers just flipped over a Covid-19 mobile testing site tent, knocking down a table and chairs set up in Union Square in New York #NYC #NewYork pic.twitter.com/RkEKwSMzzi
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) October 4, 2021
In the footage captured above by video journalist Brendan Gutenschwager, the protest march happens upon a COVID-19 testing center. They immediately begin booing and jeering, punching the van, tearing down the fold-up furniture, and yelling “Shame on you!” (for providing free COVID tests). Fortunately, none of the attending medical staff seemed to have been harmed in the incident.
Protesters making their way past restaurants now holding vaccinated-only dining under New York’s citywide mandate. Some jeers at outdoor diners, others leaving signs and stickers as the crowd passes #NewYork pic.twitter.com/FPlFmiFv9q
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) October 4, 2021
They also harassed diners at outdoor dining parkets, as if it were somehow the diners’ fault that these parklets exist.
A police officer claps for the crowd as protesters march past the Supreme Court of New York. A few court officers shake hands with a protester that came up to thank them #NewYork pic.twitter.com/KeVRexPEir
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) October 4, 2021
And look at the show of support they get from uniformed NYPD officers!
Protesters march across the bridge into Manhattan, as this afternoon’s protest against the vaccine mandate continues here in New York pic.twitter.com/ZwnXDRV6Y5
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) October 4, 2021
You can only imagine how much COVID these people are spreading, and how little they care. But do not let that mob behavior make you fear that their message is somehow getting across. As the New York Times reports today, 96% of New York school teachers have complied with the vaccine mandate.
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