The following report is from AMNY:
Five maskless, anti-vax protesters wound up in handcuffs Monday night after storming a Downtown Brooklyn Burger King, apparently in opposition to the city’s COVID protocol.
Videos posted to the Twitter account @patriottakes show dozens of people flooding the fast food restaurant on Fulton Street, many filming the protest on cameras and smartphones. The protest came on the day the city’s vaccine mandate for private employers took effect, and amid the ongoing Omicron variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 infections.
Some chanted “Let’s Go Brandon,” an anti-Biden coded curse popular among right-wing supporters uncomfortable with using the F word in public, while one, with a megaphone, said “No segregation, no discrimination.”
According to the New York City Police Department, the five arrested were charged with trespassing after allegedly refusing to leave the burger joint after repeated requests to do so, and were issued desk appearance tickets — orders to appear in criminal court.
New York City requires proof of vaccination for all indoor activities — including dining, attending fitness classes, movies, and live performances. Masks are not required indoors where people are vaccinated, but many businesses still require customers to wear them indoors as long as they are not eating or drinking.
Last week, the city mandated vaccines for private employers with in-person workers.
But the protesters were not Burger King employees — who, in videos of the incident, are wearing masks behind the counter.
The number listed for the Burger King location was disconnected, and the company did not immediately respond to request for comment.
A video filmed by one of the protestors and posted online shows a line of masked NYPD officers standing between the crowd and the counter.
We are ready to go, we are ready to leave. Call Bill de Blasio. We will leave, the minute [the police] get out of here. We are holding the line, we are not second-class citizens.
Footage shows Deputy Inspector Adeel S. Rana, the commanding officer of the NYPD’s 84th Precinct, telling the anti-vax crowd to leave the location.
The manager does not want you in here. We’re giving you ample warning, ample time.
Another Twitter user believed one of the protestors — wearing a sweatshirt depicting civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. — was also a participant in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
I’m giving you ample time, but I can’t be here all night.
Rana says, in another video
The man filming then begins telling his fellow protestors to “lock arms” and calls anyone leaving the restaurant a “coward.”
As officers shepherded the unmasked crowd back onto Fulton Street, some called the cops “Nazis” and “Gestapo,” for enforcing the vaccine mandate and removing them from the Burger King, and said they no longer support the NYPD.
According to city data, more than 97 percent of people in Downtown Brooklyn’s ZIP code had gotten at least one dose of the COVID vaccine — higher than the average Brooklyn and city-wide.
The case rate per 100,000 in 11201 was also higher than the city and borough rates — but Downtown also has significantly higher rates of testing. New cases have skyrocketed in the city since late November as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant has taken hold.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[15] And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: [16] And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. [17] But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. [18] And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? [19] And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. [20] Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. [21] And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. [22] And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.Exodus 1:15-22
This only applies if you are born again. When the government starts to come down on you, because the Lord is using it for judgment and destruction, then you need to resist and obey the words of the Lord, and not the government and “authorities.” You may receive persecution, and even arrests, but the Lord will provide for you.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Acts 5:29
Howbeit, do not go out of your way to cause riff-raff and antagonize people on purpose, which is what it seems this small ragtag group was trying to do. Moreover, if one of those guys is indeed a chap from the January 6th Capitol Riots, then that shows that type of people who are doing this, and I would not be shocked if he is another double-agent to get the ball rolling with these arrests: making the Covid zombies cheer for the arrests and government authorities “forced” to increase the pressure; while others rise up and protest as well, and getting other pundits to influence their viewers to act violently.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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