Ammon Bundy-affiliated group, clamoring for patient's release from Vancouver hospital, prompts

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Ammon Bundy-affiliated group, clamoring for patient’s release from Vancouver hospital, prompts lockdown, confrontation


Twenty-two Clark County Sheriff’s deputies secured a Vancouver hospital Friday evening after a group, including some who were armed, gathered to demand the release of a patient, who was discharged later that night.

At least one person was pepper-sprayed and another pushed by deputies guarding the entrance of the Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center emergency room. No arrests were made, but the incident drew wide attention after video was posted on the YouTube channel of Ammon Bundy, who led the 2016 seizure and occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

People in the crowd — few wearing masks and at least some who self-identified on the video as being members of People’s Rights, an affiliation of militia groups, far-right extremists and anti-mask and anti-vaccine activists that has railed against coronavirus restrictions and with which Bundy is closely associated — asserted that the patient was being held against her will for refusing to take a COVID test. They screamed at hospital personnel from outside the emergency room, demanding her release and alleging “medical kidnapping.”

The Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Saturday that the patient, identified by people in the crowd as a 74-year-old woman, had refused a COVID test and had been “placed in 24-hour quarantine for protection while receiving medical treatment.” In the video, people in the crowd said the patient was being treated with fluids and prescribed antibiotics for a urinary tract infection. They said the patient had had a brain tumor and was easily confused and needed support from her daughter, who they said held medical power of attorney.

Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/news/ammon-bundy-affiliated-group-clamoring-for-patients-release-from-vancouver-hospital-prompts-lockdown-confrontation/

[Pachamama]

1. The Covid Deniers and White Supremist Militias are now wanting to riot hospitals

This article is a warning about what is coming next...

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2. Remember when we called others "uncivilized"?