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Senator Joe Manchin’s Maserati was swarmed by climate change protesters on Thursday who claimed that he tried to run them over while blockading his car from exiting an underground garage and chanting “F*** Joe Manchin!”
“We blockaded Joe Manchin’s car and he tried to run us over,” a TikTok video posted by @hungry4climatejustice boasted showing activists attacking the senator from West Virginia.
The video shows a throng of protesters standing in front of and behind Manchin’s car as he tried to slowly inch forward and exit the garage. They pounded a drum while chanting obscenities at the moderate Democrat. They also held a banner up while one person leaned on the vehicle’s hood. Numerous videos were taken from different vantage points. A car horn can be heard blaring but it’s not clear whether it was from Manchin’s vehicle or not.
“This is Joe Manchin’s car slowly pressing into our peaceful protesters,” one person asserts. “We want to live! We want to live!” That phrase was constantly chanted along with “F*** Joe Manchin!” It seemed to be the rallying cry of the demonstration and was ostensibly meant to sway Manchin into supporting President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar Build Back Better social spending package that includes funds for climate change.
(Video Credit: Nope NoWay)
Climate change protestors harass Joe Manchin and blockade his car: pic.twitter.com/t6zAoeDOmM
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 4, 2021
“Pass climate change bill!” screamed one woman. “This is Joe Manchin’s car slowly pressing into our peaceful protestors!”
Thomas Kennedy, who describes himself on Twitter as a Democratic National Committee member and a “known agitator,” posted one of the angles taken of the incident that was put up by the group Hunger Strike 4 Justice.
“Watch Joe Manchin drive his car into protestors who are demanding that he stop blocking climate provisions in the Build Back Better package on behalf of fossil fuel and other corporate interests. What an awful, selfish, greedy man,” he tweeted.
Another video posted by Hunger Strike 4 Climate Justice shows a different angle of the confrontation. “[Sen. Joe Manchin], is the money worth selling our futures downriver? Is the money that green? Is it that good for you? How’d that Maserati feel while you drove into us this morning? #WeWantToLive,” they tweeted.
.@Sen_JoeManchin, is the money worth selling our futures downriver? Is the money that green? Is it that good for you? How’d that Maserati feel while you drove into us this morning? #WeWantToLive pic.twitter.com/LQzrAKjvad
— Hunger Strike 4 Climate Justice (@HungerStr1ke) November 4, 2021
No one was injured during the confrontation and Manchin eventually crawled his way out of the parking structure.
Earlier in the day, Manchin was videoed having difficulty getting to his car because of protesters accosting him.
BREAKING – Young climate activists with @sunrisemvmt confronted Sen. Manchin as he stepped off his yacht this morning. “We want to live!” they say. This comes after Manchin once again declines @POTUS’ Build Back Better Act, holding hostage significant investments in climate. pic.twitter.com/oT82sXiFZw
— John Paul Mejia 🌅 (@johnpaul_mejia) November 4, 2021
DEVELOPING– After @Sen_JoeManchin walked away without giving any answers to the @sunrisemvmt activists who confronted him for obstructing @POTUS’ climate and jobs package, they blocked his exit from the parking lot demanding answers. pic.twitter.com/qoRF9T6TyX
— John Paul Mejia 🌅 (@johnpaul_mejia) November 4, 2021
The encounter occurred on Thursday morning at Manchin’s houseboat location in Washington, D.C. By the end of the day, “Maserati” was trending on Twitter as if being successful and owning a luxury vehicle was some kind of sin.
“This action in front of his yacht club is to highlight that he is a bought-out politician,” proclaimed Kidus Girma, who is a member of the Sunrise Movement, which has endorsed the Green New Deal.
— Sam Dorman (@DormanInDc) November 4, 2021
Girma stated that the group was demanding the full “Build Back Better” agenda while claiming that President Biden wasn’t fighting hard enough for it.
The protest turned personal with demonstrators surrounding Manchin and chanting “we want to live.” Girma told Fox News that the protest followed a scheduled 14-day hunger strike that he and others recently ended “to refuel our bodies and bring the fire to Senator Manchin.”
BREAKING: We’re here at sunrise at @SenJoe_Manchin’s dock, home to his $5M houseboat, bought by fossil fuel money, to call out his greed and corruption that’s torching our future. pic.twitter.com/g9oYAZ75Ii
— Hunger Strike 4 Climate Justice (@HungerStr1ke) November 4, 2021
“As we watch Manchin obstruct, obstruct, obstruct critical legislation that’s important for human existence on this planet, we want Senate leadership, President Biden to recognize that he is not a good faith actor – as they already know – and just start naming and shaming him,” urged Girma.
Manchin swarmed by activists after hunger strike fails, demand Biden start ‘naming and shaming him’ https://t.co/ysPAvf1ovK pic.twitter.com/EL2WduF9uI
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) November 5, 2021
Some of the protesters held up a large orange and red banner that read “Joe Manchin is burning our future for profit.”
While leftists applauded the assault, others vigorously condemned their actions:
It is *literally* violence to block someone's lawful, free movement. They should all be arrested. https://t.co/GWQuvTG7Yv
— Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) November 4, 2021
Weird that blocking someone from driving to work, screaming at them, and then pretending he was running you over didn’t make him empathize with you!🤔🤔 https://t.co/32PMbcVs1M
— Maggie Howell (@Mar__G_3) November 4, 2021
Joe doesn’t deserve this. But the protestors aka insurrectionists should be jailed.
— SharonKP#45 Phoenix for Another year. (@SharonP92453996) November 5, 2021
Joe is finding out what we all new that his democrats party is dead and buried they are now fascist who will use thuggish methods until they are hung upside down in the city square like Benito civilized by day ,brown shirts beat opponents at night!
— Joeyde18 (@joeyde18) November 5, 2021
Inching his way along is NOT trying to run them over. They had no right to block him in the 1st place!
— Linda Pease (@worldgirl09) November 5, 2021
Where was the law? This needs to be stopped.
— Pat Eppler (@patndale) November 5, 2021
If you’re in the street, blocking a cars path on purpose, there are repercussions.
— DC (@donconte411) November 5, 2021
Stop with the car mobs like some predators and you won’t get run over.
— GizzardStank (@stinky_gizzard) November 5, 2021
The individuals threatening a man’s life don’t know what they are talking about and most likely are paid by George soros or some other group. They most live with mommy and daddy still.
— sweater vest (@invsantoro) November 5, 2021
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