Omar Navarro, a perennial political candidate who was previously convicted of attaching a tracking device to his wife’s car, was in front of Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Saturday and warned that the coronavirus vaccines distributed there are part of a project mind control.
“What I’m doing here is a massive, massive, massive indoctrination. They want to practically hurt people, because this vaccination is definitely not good, “Navarro said in a Facebook Live video, telling viewers of the place of his protest.” Basically, what the left is doing is using Dodger Stadium to mass vaccinate people. . ”
Navarro was one of about 50 people protesting vaccinations outside the stadium, one of the largest such sites in America this weekend. The group has temporarily closed access to the site – although officials have said the measure is simply a precaution.
Their ranks were full of tiny figures who have recently taken part in other far-right actions, such as anti-mask raids in shopping malls and the January 6 rally that preceded the attack on the Nation’s Chapter. Los Angeles’ anti-mask events, in particular, have drawn criticism, as opponents have contrasted the police’s easy response with the force targeted by last year’s racial justice protests.
Authorities, including Los Angeles Fire Department officials, have 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 had broken the law and that no arrests had been made.
However, people waiting for the vaccinations described the demonstration – in which protesters waved signs of misinformation about masks and vaccines, both of which proved to be safe and effective – as the latest complication in the administrative nightmare of insuring a coup.
“Anti-vax protesters approached the entrance to the site. LAPD have now closed the gate. We’ve been here for about half an hour. Nobody moves ” independent rocker Mikel Jollett wrote on Twitter, who was at the place where he accompanied his mother.
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Prior to the protest, advertisements circulated on anti-vaccination Facebook pages, including one known for conducting maskless raids in Los Angeles stores, called Shop Mask Free Los Angeles. The group was among the first to promote the action, Los Angeles Times previously reported.
The group was at the center of other captivating demonstrations, including a maskless raid on a Los Angeles mall in early January, during which participants knocked on doors and demanded entry to mall stores while masked workers they tried to exclude them.
Among the various leaflets promoting the vaccination event on the anti-vaccination and anti-blocking Facebook pages was a request by which the participants actively hid their pro-Trump tendencies.
“Dress code,” it read. “As sad as it is to ask, please refrain from wearing Trump / MAGA attire, because we want our statement to resonate with the sheep. No flags, but welcome informative signs! ”
Administrators for Shop Mask Free Los Angeles did not return a request for comment on whether they held the event at Dodger Stadium. California resident Bryna Makowka, who attended the rally but denied it, told The Daily Beast that the event was organized by a man in a hat whose name she did not know.
That man, Jason Lefkowitz, was among the first to promote the event on Facebook. On Twitter, where he claimed to have called the police in advance to inform them about the demonstration, he previously suggested that he would organize an anti-mask event in December. (He did not return a request for comment.)
Another rally participant, Asefeh Shirafkan, shared videos of her at a series of marginal events, including the protest outside Dodger Stadium, a maskless confrontation inside a target and the January 6 rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol. Shirafkan, who does not appear to have entered the Capitol, recently posted a picture of her in DC, along with Vincent Fusca, a man who many QAnon conspiracy theory believers falsely believe is JFK Jr. in disguise.
Arriving for comments, Shirafkan sent him the text The Daily Beast “fuck” and a request to watch a video about Bill Gates.
Actor Siaka Massaquoi, who did not return a request for comment, was also filmed outside the Capitol (which he does not appear to have entered) and at the Dodger Stadium rally. “Super time protesting the fleeing sheep to get a vaccine you don’t need!” wrote on Instagram. “So much so that the authorities closed the entrance because they were afraid that we would ‘assault’.”
Navarro – whose campaign office did not return a comment request – garnered 32,000 views on his video outside Dodger Stadium.
“The real virus is Democrats,” he said on Facebook Live. “This is the real virus, boys.”