Nevada Tribal Rangers on Sunday plowed through a climate change protest that caused a miles-long backup blocking traffic to the annual Burning Man festival.
Video footage from Sunday showed the Nevada Tribal Rangers successfully breaking up the demonstration by driving a truck through the blockade. Close to 150 cars were reportedly halted on the only road to Burning Man due to the protesters.
Traffic was backed up as climate activists blocked the only road leading to #BurningMan pic.twitter.com/9oDorimFxz
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) August 27, 2023
Video of the traffic backed up on Nevada freeway leading to #BurningMan after climate Protesters blocked the road pic.twitter.com/YxCdWBEpsh
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) August 28, 2023
The anti-capitalist climate change protesters showed signs that said, “General Strike for Climate,” and, “Abolish Capitalism.” Some protesters reportedly chained themselves to the trailer that was blocking traffic.
Footage showed the Tribal Rangers plowing through the blockade with a truck and exiting the vehicle to make arrests.
This is how the police deal with climate protesters in Nevada. That’s how you do it. pic.twitter.com/y8Qy1nkG7H
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 28, 2023
🚨#BREAKING: Nevada Rangers has rammed their truck through climate protesters as they attempted to shut down the Burning Man Arts and Music Festival
📌#Blackrock | #Nevada
⁰Climate activists attempted to halt a significant music and arts festival known as Burning Man, which is… pic.twitter.com/ormnHYIPgy— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2023
“We are not violent! Please… we have no weapons at all, we are environmental protesters,” a woman yelled as police detained one protester.
The Rangers arrested the protesters for “trespassing on tribal land.”
“30 seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let’s talk, get off the fucken road” – Tribal Ranger announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED through blockade, made arrest at gun point. pic.twitter.com/JUckcr6qoE
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) August 28, 2023
The New York-based activist group Seven Circles took credit for the protest that blocked traffic.
As the SF Gate reported:
Seven Circles said the purpose of the protest was “to draw attention to capitalism’s inability to address climate and ecological breakdown” and included three demands, including banning the use of private jets and single-use plastics at Burning Man and for the organization’s leaders to “admit that infinite growth is incompatible with sustaining the Earth’s systems.”
Burning Man is an annual gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and has been described as a “networking event” for Big Tech billionaires.
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