Police go after climate protestors

[AntivaxHunters]

With guns drawn no less.

Link to tweet

[Autumn]

1. Disgusting. Sad part is too many people will not have a problem with this.

[FBaggins]

16. Can't say that I support pulling the gun and kneeling on a protestor's back...

... but I would have no problem with arresting the bunch of them and bulldozing their blockade off of the road.

[Autumn]

21. Is silent respectful kneeling the only correct protesting action?

Because we all know how well that was accepted.

[FBaggins]

22. No... there are lots of "correct" protesting actions

They went well beyond any reasonable definition

[ForgedCrank]

2. Being an

inconsiderate jerk shouldn't expose someone to the risk of getting ran over by a police cruiser and having a gun pointed at them.
Pretty much everything in this video is wrong.

[stopdiggin]

3. where is this? what is being protested? is there a target facility

plant or mine nearby? can someone provide a link to a news source? (I like to read about context and background)

[lapucelle]

5. Tribal police in Nevada broke through a blockade on the road into the Burning Man festival.

Tribal police have broken the blockade of climate protesters blocking the way to Nevada’s Burning Man festival – as footage shows police taking a no-nonsense approach to activists.

Video taken in Nevada shows about six protesters from the Seven Circles group and Extinction Rebellion blocking a road with a trailer, causing traffic chaos and miles of traffic jams.

The protesters locked themselves in the trailer and appeared to clash with those trying to attend the Burning Man festival before police were called on Aug. 27.

https://nybreaking.com/sure-fire-way-to-get-arrested-moment-nevada-rangers-plow-truck-through-extinction-rebellion-protest-after-the-activists-blocked-road-into-burning-man-that-caused-miles-long-gridlock/

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Climate activists cause several miles of traffic chaos by blocking route to Burning Man

Burning Man traffic was brought to a recent standstill by a group of anti-capitalist climate change activists who blocked the main road to the festival.

On Sunday (28 August), nearly half a dozen protestors from Seven Circles stood themselves in the middle of the road used to enter the desert venue. Some even chained themselves to a trailer parked on the road as well.

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They added that their protests were aimed at the “popularisation of Burning Man among affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event.”

Seven Circles argued that the annual Black Rock Desert event’s goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030 is “insufficient to tackle the pressing crisis”.

Video footage circulating social media shows Nevada rangers driving through the activist’s barricade before an officer gets out wielding a gun and making arrests.

“You’re trespassing on tribal land,” another ranger informs a woman.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/burning-man-2023-traffic-protests-climate-b2400638.html

[emulatorloo]

7. Thank you for the links, appreciate it.

[lapucelle]

8. People were stranded in their cars in the desert heat for hours. N/T

[BlackSkimmer]

14. I guess the protestors didn't factor in the damage inflicted on the climate by hundreds

of cars running their engines and AC in the desert heat for hours.

[stopdiggin]

9. thanks. appreciate the clarification (and your effort) -(nt)-

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I'm rarely a guy who defends police but there's GOT to be more to this story.

[lapucelle]

6. There is more to the story. They were trespassing on tribal land,

blocking the only road into the Burning Man festival. People were stuck in their cars in the desert heat for hours.

edited to remove a questionable link.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Yes, they were. Native Americans have never been the ones destroying the environment.

Those who succeeded the great numbers of original citizens who were nearly slaughtered to extinction and driven brutally to live on land the European descendants didn't want are not the ones who have been poisoning the land which was stolen from them.

Thank you, lapucelle, for pointing out something everyone should know already if they simply took the time to think.

[stopdiggin]

11. and confrontation w/ private citizens

already underway (and escalating?)

(but noting: you're latest link is decidedly red - could do without the tone presented.)

[BlackSkimmer]

15. Thank you. nt

[emulatorloo]

19. The link was very questionable, but it was interesting to see more video of what went on.

[Dr. Strange]

12. "Peaceful climate blockade"

Maybe white people should just say no to blockading Native American lands.

[AntivaxHunters]

13. Or maybe police are the problem?

Pulling a gun on these people? Come on.
This shit is why nobody trusts cops. There's no song called "Fuck The Fire Department".

[FBaggins]

17. There doesn't have to be a good guy in every encounter

Apparent police misconduct does not turn a criminal act into an acceptable one. That was far more than a minor inconvenience to make a point.

And I'm not sure what restrictions there are for tribal police on their own land.

[lapucelle]

18. "We're entitled to trespass on tribal land because our performative activism

is really, really virtuous."



https://pyramidlake.us/the_people

https://pyramidlake.us/

[Calculating]

20. Blocking a roadway in the desert and stranding hundreds of people is not a proper protest

Screw the assholes who block roads and stuff. Reminds me of the losers in Europe gluing their hands to the road.