Rangers crush a climate protest blocking the road to Burning Man in Nevada – as footage shows them taking a no-nonsense approach to activists.
The video shows six protesters from Seven Circles and Extinction Rebellion crowding the street with a trailer, causing traffic chaos and traffic jams for miles.
Protesters locked themselves in the trailer and appeared to clash with those trying to attend Burning Man on Sunday.
But guards from Nevada’s Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department broke through the blockade and quickly began arresting protesters.
A tribal officer exited the vehicle and ordered a woman to the ground at gunpoint before telling her to “stop resisting” his arrest.
The eco-zealots screamed in horror and some sobbed saying “we are non-violent” as they were led away.
The footage was widely celebrated, as Americans and Britons praised cops for dealing with climate protesters who have wreaked havoc across the world in recent years.
Video taken in Nevada shows six protesters from the group Seven Circles as well as Extinction Rebellion blocking a road with a trailer.
Rangers from Nevada’s Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department broke through the blockade and quickly began arresting protesters on the road.
Footage posted online shows a man telling activists they were on ‘public property’ and needed to ‘move this fucking mess’.
The activists then tell him to call the authorities if they want them to move, while another assures him that he will “eventually get” to Burning Man.
A woman can be seen chaining herself to the caravan as one of the protesters comes in the face of another man saying, ‘It’s a democracy, we have the right to protest’.
She tells the protester to ‘lock up and shut up’ like she did, but he continues to berate the angry driver saying, ‘every change in society has come from civil disobedience, all of them. »
Many angry drivers then attempt to move the caravan themselves, while the protester shouts that they are hurting her – as someone says it was a ‘stupid move’.
Another can be heard asking a protester ‘who has the gun’, while the protesters say ‘we have no guns at all, we are environmental protesters’.
Guardian journalist Michelle Hooq claimed on social media that Rangers attended the protest after receiving a call that “someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists”.
DailyMail.com did not immediately receive a response to a request for comment from Extinction Rebellion, Seven Circles or the PLPTPD.
A ranger could be heard saying the protesters were “encroaching on tribal land”, before several of them were arrested and taken into custody.
Photos from the protest show an XR banner reading ‘Ban Private Jets’, along with other signs reading ‘World Burners, Unite and ‘Abolish Capitalism’.
Last year, Rave Revolution installed “climate-related artwork” at Burning Man and said their “feedback has been great”, so they were looking for an “expanded presence” in 2023.
Photos from the protest show an XR banner reading ‘Ban Private Jets’, along with other signs reading ‘World Burners, Unite and ‘Abolish Capitalism’.
Protesters locked themselves in the trailer and appeared to clash with those trying to attend the Burning Man festival before police were called.
A Tribal Rangers truck broke through the blockade of protesters, destroying several signs.
Rangers armed with rifles appeared to arrest several members of the group, Seven Circles and Extinction Rebellion.
They had clashed with those trying to make it to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada.
Extinction Rebellion has yet to release an official statement on the protest, but the group’s Seattle branch tweeted, “Why would a police officer risk public safety like this?
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Seven Circles claim that their aim is “to draw attention to capitalism’s inability to deal with climatic and ecological degradation”.
Protesters said they were also against “popularizing Burning Man among wealthy people who don’t live by Burning Man’s stated values, which would result in the commodification of the event.”
Mun Chong, an Extinction Rebellion protester, said, “Now is the time. Burning Man should aim to have the same kind of political impact that Woodstock had on the counterculture.
“If we’re honest about system change, it has to start ‘at home’. Immediately ban the lowest fruit: private jets.
“No individual should have the luxury of emitting 10 to 20 times more carbon pollution than a commercial airline passenger.” Burners, rebel with us.
Extinction Rebellion has yet to release an official statement on the protest, but the group’s Seattle branch tweeted, “Why would a police officer risk public safety like this?”
Participants were seen dressed in futuristic and often scantily clad clothes in photos taken by DailyMail.com photographers for the start of the seven-day event on Sunday.
Protesters said they were also against “the popularization of Burning Man among wealthy people who don’t live by Burning Man’s stated values, resulting in the commodification of the event.”
Many activists clashed with those trying to pass through or get to the Burning Man festival by road.
Seven Circles claim that their aim is “to draw attention to capitalism’s inability to deal with climatic and ecological degradation”.
They say Burning Man’s apolitical stance is “damaging to claimed values, especially as carbon emissions continue to rise despite government and corporate commitments to cut carbon emissions by more than half by 2030”.
Thomas Diocano, co-founder of Rave Revolution, added: “We don’t have a climate problem, the climate behaves exactly according to the laws of physics.
“We have a problem with the economic system, and this economic system is capitalism. History shows that capitalism cannot be reformed.
“It cannot be changed from ‘inside’. Are we really ready to sacrifice everything for an outdated and unequal economic system? The time to evolve has come.
Among its demands are that Burning Man leaders “advocate for system change politically and economically” and ban private jets, single-use plastics, “unnecessary burning of propane and unrestricted use of generators” during the nine-day event.
