‘We got kids to feed…. I want to get to work’: Moment furious commuters rip banners away from climate activists blocking the roads in angry rush-hour clash
- Commuters climbed out of their cars to scream at eco-protestors on the road
- The Washington DC protestors were arrested by local cops shortly after
New footage of furious commuters tearing banners away from climate activists blocking traffic in the middle of rush hour in Washington DC has been published.
Several people climbed out of their cars to shout at members of anti-fossil fuel group Declare Emergency who sat on the busy road on Saturday morning.
‘I want to work, I want to go to work,’ one man was heard saying as he proceeded to yank their banners from their hands.
‘You don’t give a f***, get the f*** out of here! We have to go to f***ing work,’ another woman was heard yelling at the protestors’ faces.
‘We got kids to feed, b—h.’
Several people climbed out of their cars to shout at members of anti-fossil fuel group Declare Emergency, pictured here on a busy DC highway on Saturday
‘You don’t give a f***, get the f*** out of here! We have to go to f***ing work,’ another woman was heard yelling
‘I want to work, I want to go to work,’ one man was heard saying as he proceeded to yank their banners from their hands
Shortly after commuters began tearing into the protestors, local cops arrived and declared that the group were all ‘under arrest for contempt of court’, which drivers cheered.
While protestors are normally given three warnings before they are arrested, DC cops simply gave one, with one officer shouting at them: ‘You’re not getting three warnings.’
The protest group said on Monday in a Tweet: ‘For us, this was a great way to honor the legacy of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and to carry on his tradition of disruptive, nonviolent civil disobedience!’
Declare Emergency says on its website that getting arrested is an ‘important’ part of their work.
‘Mass arrest is an important strategy of historical nonviolence movements that demanded system change from their governments,’ Declare Emergency said on its website
The furious commuters shouted at the protestors, who claimed to be doing a public service
‘Mass arrest is an important strategy of historical nonviolence movements that demanded system change from their governments,’ Declare Emergency said on its website.
‘[E]very time the state imprisons us for nonviolently demanding a livable future, we win a moral battle.
‘The more the state oppresses those asking for the right to live in a sustainable world, the less tenable its moral stance becomes in the eyes of the greater public.’
MailOnline has contacted Declare Emergency for an official comment on the protest.
‘The more the state oppresses those asking for the right to live in a sustainable world, the less tenable its moral stance becomes in the eyes of the greater public,’ Declare Emergency said on its website
The protestors were arrested by DC cops, who said they were arrested for ‘contempt of court’
The fury at the DC protestors came shortly before rangers smashed through a climate protest blocking the road to the Burning Man festival in Nevada.
Video footage revealed six demonstrators from climate activism groups Seven Circles and Extinction Rebellion clogging up the road with a trailer and locking themselves to it.
The demonstration caused huge backlogs, with cars stuck in gridlock for miles.
Cops from Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department were seen plowing straight through the blockade, before arresting the protestors.
One officer got out of the vehicle and ordered a woman to the floor at gunpoint before telling her to ‘stop resisting’ arrest.
The eco-zealots shrieked in horror and some sobbed saying ‘we’re non-violent’ as they were hauled away.
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