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That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too.
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That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too.
The Columbus Dispatch photo of an anti-social-distancing protest went viral this week. (Joshua A. Bickel/AP)
By Maura Judkis
April 17, 2020 at 11:18 a.m. EDT
The insatiable flesh-hunger of zombies wasnt exactly on photographer Joshua Bickels mind when he was covering an anti-social-distancing protest at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday. But it was all that was on the, well, braaaaaains of people who saw Bickels work on social media, where the photo went viral for its parallels to classic zombie films.
The Columbus Dispatch photographers image is frightening and compelling. Approximately 100 protesters who were urging Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to end the states stay-at-home order and reopen businesses pressed up against the glass doors to the statehouse, chanting and banging windows.
One wears a Guy Fawkes mask. Two men wear Trump-branded baseball caps. Two women, the closest to the windows, shape their mouths into the same elongated howl as Edvard Munchs The Scream. American flags obscure some of the protesters in the back.
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Maura Judkis
Maura Judkis is a features reporter for The Washington Post. She is a 2018 James Beard Award winner. She joined The Post in 2011. Follow https://twitter.com/MauraJudkis
That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too.
The Columbus Dispatch photo of an anti-social-distancing protest went viral this week. (Joshua A. Bickel/AP)
By Maura Judkis
April 17, 2020 at 11:18 a.m. EDT
The insatiable flesh-hunger of zombies wasnt exactly on photographer Joshua Bickels mind when he was covering an anti-social-distancing protest at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday. But it was all that was on the, well, braaaaaains of people who saw Bickels work on social media, where the photo went viral for its parallels to classic zombie films.
The Columbus Dispatch photographers image is frightening and compelling. Approximately 100 protesters who were urging Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to end the states stay-at-home order and reopen businesses pressed up against the glass doors to the statehouse, chanting and banging windows.
One wears a Guy Fawkes mask. Two men wear Trump-branded baseball caps. Two women, the closest to the windows, shape their mouths into the same elongated howl as Edvard Munchs The Scream. American flags obscure some of the protesters in the back.
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Maura Judkis
Maura Judkis is a features reporter for The Washington Post. She is a 2018 James Beard Award winner. She joined The Post in 2011. Follow https://twitter.com/MauraJudkis
Youve seen the photo of Ohio protesters. Heres the story behind it.
By Michelle Everhart
The Columbus Dispatch
Posted Apr 16, 2020 at 10:15 AM
They are pressed up against the atrium windows of the Ohio Statehouse. Crowded together and yelling. Protesters demanding an end to the stay-at-home order in Ohio.
Youve probably seen the above photo on social media sometime during the past couple of days. Its gone viral as people debate stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Dispatch photographer Joshua Bickel took the photo that accompanied the story by Anna Staver and Cole Behrens. Bickel agreed to answer some questions about the photo as well as what it is like to be a photojournalist during this time. You can find some of his favorite photos that hes taken above.
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By Michelle Everhart
The Columbus Dispatch
Posted Apr 16, 2020 at 10:15 AM
They are pressed up against the atrium windows of the Ohio Statehouse. Crowded together and yelling. Protesters demanding an end to the stay-at-home order in Ohio.
Youve probably seen the above photo on social media sometime during the past couple of days. Its gone viral as people debate stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Dispatch photographer Joshua Bickel took the photo that accompanied the story by Anna Staver and Cole Behrens. Bickel agreed to answer some questions about the photo as well as what it is like to be a photojournalist during this time. You can find some of his favorite photos that hes taken above.
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That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2020
OP
I say that they are way way overreacting. Idiots. Go ahead, expose yourself and your loved ones.
SWBTATTReg
Apr 2020
#7
Stephen Moore says the right-wing activists protesting stay-at-home orders are -- I'm not joking ...
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2020
#14
Sanity Claws
(21,847 posts)1. They look like seriously disturbed people
gab13by13
(21,323 posts)2. People who will die for Trump just to give the market a temporary boost
are indeed disturbed.
live love laugh
(13,104 posts)10. They ARE. nt
Siwsan
(26,260 posts)3. "The Walking Brain-Dead"
Coming to a city near you. If it hasn't already.
Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)4. I posted earlier
They look like crazies trapped in a mental institution
Cirque du So-What
(25,932 posts)5. Have any of these fools been doxxed yet?
Perhaps they're beyond shaming, but others in their social circles may not want to be seen with them.
Sanity Claws
(21,847 posts)6. That blonde middle-aged woman looks familiar
I wouldn't be surprised if she is Republican party operative.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)7. I say that they are way way overreacting. Idiots. Go ahead, expose yourself and your loved ones.
I won't weep, I promise.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)8. They should be embarrassed and ashamed ...
if they see that photo of themselves. They all look like they're trying to break out of the asylum.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)9. Their families will be ashamed, posthumously.
These shitheads will die, along with many of their family members, and unfortunately an unknown number of innocent decent people, because of this act.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)11. fucking deplorables
they prove it over and over and over again
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)12. Ugly
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)13. Shaun of the Dead poster:
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)14. Stephen Moore says the right-wing activists protesting stay-at-home orders are -- I'm not joking ...
TOTALAUTHORITYHat Retweeted
Stephen Moore says the right-wing activists protesting stay-at-home orders are Im not joking modern-day Rosa Parks https://washingtonpost.com/national/rallies-against-stay-at-home-orders-grow-as-trump-sides-with-protesters/2020/04/17/1405ba54-7f4e-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html
Link to tweet
ck4829
(35,069 posts)15. Ha
Sir Normie
(40 posts)16. Let Charlie Explain: