((Daily Mail) Commuters in Washington got into a raging confrontation with climate activists on their way to the nation’s capital Friday, with one even threatening to shoot protesters blocking the highway.
A group called Declare Emergency, which is demanding President Joe Biden declare a ‘climate emergency,’ sat themselves down on I-395, one of the main routes to Washington, and refused to get up.
That soon prompted a furious backlash from drivers. One woman got out of her car and threatened the rabble with a gun if they refused to let her past to go see her mom, while an irate man ripped placards out of the group’s hands and tossed them above the median and onto the other side of the interstate.
After half an hour, police arrived to arrest the group.
Blocking roads is aping a tactic that’s largely been used in the United Kingdom, where protesters have interrupted traffic to sound the alarm about climate change.
Declare Emergency’s website and demands compare the threat of climate to Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany prior to World War II, when ‘President Roosevelt united the country and led us into a struggle for universal decency.’
Those trying to get to work Friday morning were seen on video not exactly feeling the unity, with one getting out of her car and threatening, ‘Move before I pull my gun out.’
This woman ended up getting out of her car and threatening climate activists with her gun after they blocked the I-395 in DC on Friday morning
A man took matters into his own hands by ripping the placard from protesters and tossing it onto the other side of the road
Commuters in Washington got into a stunning confrontation with climate activists on their way to the nation’s capital Friday, with one even threatening to shoot protesters blocking the highway
A group called Declare Emergency , which is demanding President Joe Biden declare a ‘climate emergency,’ sat themselves down on I-395, one of the main routes to Washington, and refused to get up
Blocking roads is aping a tactic that’s largely been used in the United Kingdom, where protesters have interrupted traffic to sound the alarm about climate change
Their website and demands compare the threat of climate to Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany prior to World War II, when ‘President Roosevelt united the country and led us into a struggle for universal decency’
The group’s goal has been to get President Biden to declare climate emergency that would allow him to bypass Congress and, to their ideas, save the planet
VIDEO THREAD: Drivers were irate this morning as environmental @DecEmergency protesters blocked I-395 Northbound during rush hour traffic into DC to demand Biden declare a “climate emergency.”
One driver got out, grabbed their banners, and threw them into the southbound lanes. pic.twitter.com/Eh4O0KTUWY
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 7, 2022
“Move before I pull my gun out” said a driver to protesters, claiming her mother is in the hospital.
The group let her drive by.
“Test me, fucking test me” she yelled as one activist backed up.
She later told me the driver indeed grabbed a gun then, which my cam didn’t catch. pic.twitter.com/uIp8Pwhoa1
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 7, 2022
Footage showed another driver angrily confronting the group, saying ‘People are trying to get to work, hundreds of people trying to get to work. What are you doing?’
The group tweeted after the protest, ‘We do not enjoy putting our bodies on the line, we do it because we must. We will keep doing it until [Biden] declares a climate emergency and stops fossil fuel extraction on federal and indigenous land.’
