Climate protestersā move to shut down a road in Nevada dramatically ended after the police got involved.
On Sunday, Climate Change activists blocked traffic as they set up a demonstration featuring signs about Climate Change in the middle of the road that led to the Burning Man festival. The traffic jam reportedly stretched for miles.
A video showed a Ranger truck with its lights on and sirens blaring driving alongside the road to get around the traffic. The Daily Mail reports the officer was from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police.
The truck then swerved back onto the road and plowed through the demonstration, taking out the signs but avoiding the protesters.
After passing through the demonstration, the truck swung around, and the ranger stepped out.
āGet down! On the ground! On the ground now!ā the officer could be heard telling the activists.
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Climate Defiance, a Climate Change advocacy group, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, āWords fail. Words utterly fail. Today a police truck PLOWED INTO a peaceful climate blockade. These are the people āentrustedā to keep us safe. These are the people we have granted a monopoly on the use of force. How is this ok?ā
However, conservatives celebrated the move.
āYou complain about the āmonopoly of forceā for police yet you think itās OK for your activists to unilaterally block peopleās movement?ā wrote conservative commentator Lauren Chen.
The account āEnd Wokenessā chimed in, āClimate activists tried to block a highway. Nevada Rangers bulldozed through the blockade and arrested them. This is how itās doneā¦ā
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote, āPlay stupid games, win stupid prizes. Let me offer you some free advice: donāt try this in Texas.ā
āBeers on me for these cops. Well done guys,ā insisted conservative writer Noah Pollak.
Another user wrote, āWhat makes this extra amusing is that the āRangersā are Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police, and the backed up traffic is for Burning Man. Native American cops busting up a standoff between two tribes of white progressives is straight up comedy gold.ā
Some of the demonstrators said they were protesting the āpopularizationā of Burning Man āamong affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event.ā
āāThe time has come. Burning Man should aim to have the same type of political impact that Woodstock had on counter-culture,ā one protester said, adding, āIf we are honest about system change, it needs to start at āhomeā. Ban the lowest hanging fruit immediately: private jets.ā
