Anti-Vax Protester Tells CNN ‘Antifa Should Be With Us!’ at Wild Los Angeles Protest Where One Person Was Stabbed

Sarah RumpfAug 14th, 2021, 10:41 pm
 

A protest against vaccine and mask mandates outside Los Angeles City Hall turned violent Saturday, with fights breaking out and one person being stabbed. CNN’s Paul Vercammen reported from the scene later in the day, interviewing one very ardent protester who declared that “antifa” should be supporting their cause.

The Los Angeles Police Department was investigating the stabbing, said CNN Newsroom host Pamela Brown, calling the scene “chaos.”

“It’s a rowdy crowd,” said Brown. “What is going on there, Paul?”

Vercammen described “several hundred demonstrators” who had gathered outside the Los Angeles City Hall, and fights that broke out between different groups of protesters. One person was stabbed, possibly in the torso, said Vercammen, had been transported to an area hospital, and was in stable condition.

Video clips posted on Twitter by eyewitnesses showed some of the chaotic scene from earlier in the day.

Vercammen interviewed a woman who was there to protest against mask and vaccine mandates. She had requested to remain anonymous, so was not named, but can be seen in some of the videos posted on Twitter from earlier in the day.

She told Vercammen that their protest was not religious or politically partisan, but just people “coming together for human rights.”

“The clinical trials are not done yet,” she continued. “So how can you fire people in the United States who have worked for decades and they are scared to take this experimental vaccine? It doesn’t matter what you believe in, you have to respect everybody’s rights.”

She also spoke about antifa, noting that their name “stands for anti-fascism,” and her sign said that “vaccine mandates are fascist.”

“So how come the liberal anti-fascists are trying to fight with us when they should be on our side?” she asked. “They are the ones instigating harassment and terror and violence. Antifa should be with us, because we are fighting against fascism.”

When Vercammen went back to Brown, she thanked him and quickly commented that the major clinical trials were in fact finished for the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, although they was ongoing testing on the vaccines for children. “Just wanted to clear up that misinformation,” said Brown.

Watch the video above, via CNN.

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