Omar Navarro, a perennial political candidate who was previously convicted of plugging a tracking device into his wife’s car, was spotted at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday and warned that coronavirus vaccines would be distributed were part of a mind control project.
“What they are doing here is mass indoctrination. They basically want to hurt people because this vaccination is definitely not good, “Navarro said in a Facebook Live video, telling viewers the location of his protest.” Basically what the left is doing is using Dodger Stadium to massively vaccinate people “.
Navarro was one of about 50 people who protested vaccinations outside the stadium, one of the largest venues in America, this weekend. The group temporarily closed access to the location, although officials said the measure was purely preventive.
His ranks were filled with marginal figures who had also recently witnessed other far-right actions, such as anti-mask raids on shopping malls and the January 6 rally that preceded the attack on the nation’s Capitol. Los Angeles anti-mask events, in particular, have sparked criticism as opponents contrasted the light police response with the force directed at last year’s racial justice protests.
Authorities, including Los Angeles Fire Department officials, temporarily stopped admitting drivers in response to the protest on Saturday afternoon, a police spokesman told The Daily Beast. They added that none of the protesters violated the law and no arrests were made.
However, people waiting for the vaccines described the demonstration – in which protesters waved signs rich in misinformation about masks and vaccines, both proven to be safe and effective – as the latest complication of the administrative nightmare to achieve a taken away.
“Anti-vax protesters have approached the entrance of the site. The LAPDs have closed the door. We sat here for about half an hour. Nobody moves ” has tweeted independent rocker Mikel Jollett, who was at the place accompanying his mother.
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Prior to the protest, ads were circulating on Facebook pages against vaccination, including a celebrity for directing maskless raids on Los Angeles stores, called Shop Mask Free Los Angeles. The group was one of the first to publicize the action, the Los Angeles Times previously reported.
This group has been at the center of other demonstrations that captured headlines, including a maskless raid on a Los Angeles mall in early January, during which participants knocked on doors and demanded entry to stores. of the malls while the masked workers tried to close them.
Among the various pamphlets promoting the vaccination event on anti-vaccination and anti-blockage Facebook pages was a request for attendees to actively hide their pro-Trump leanings.
“A dress code,” it read. “As sad as it is to ask, please refrain from dressing Trump / MAGA, as we want our statement to resonate with the sheep. No flags but welcome signs!”
The administrators of Shop Mask Free Los Angeles did not return any requests for comment on whether they had organized the event at Dodger Stadium. California resident Bryna Makowka, who attended the rally but refused to organize it, told The Daily Beast that the event had been organized by a man in a top hat, whose name he did not know.
That man, Jason Lefkowitz, was one of the first to promote the event on Facebook. On Twitter, where he claimed to have called police in advance to notify them of the demonstration, he previously hinted that he had organized an anti-mask shopping event in December. (No request for feedback returned).
Another rally attendee, Asefeh Shirafkan, has shared a video of herself at several marginal events, including the protest at Dodger Stadium, a maskless confrontation inside a Target, and the January 6 rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol Shirafkan, who appears not to have entered the Capitol, recently tweeted a photo of him in DC with Vincent Fusca, a man many believers in QAnon’s conspiracy theory falsely believe is JFK Jr disguised.
When it came to commenting, Shirafkan sent a text message to The Daily Beast to make a shit out of watching a video about Bill Gates.
Actor Siaka Massaquoi, who did not return any requests for comment, also filmed himself outside the Capitol (which he does not appear to have entered) and at the Dodger Stadium rally. “Great for protesting sheep running around to get a vaccine you don’t need!” wrote on Instagram. “Both the authorities closed the entrance because there was a fear that they would ‘make a storm.'”
Navarro, whose campaign office sent no requests for comment, garnered 32,000 views on his video outside of Dodger Stadium.
“The real virus is Democrats,” he told Facebook Live. “This is the real virus, guys.”