Omar Navarro, a multi-year political candidate previously convicted of attaching a tracking device to his wife’s car, stood outside the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, warning that the coronavirus vaccines spreading there become part of a mind control project.
‘What they’re doing here is a massive, massive, indoctrination. They basically want to hurt people because this vaccination is definitely not good, ‘Navarro said in a Facebook Live video, telling viewers where the protest is taking place. “What the left is doing is using Dodger Stadium to vaccinate people en masse.”
Navarro was one of about 50 people vaccinated outside the stadium over the weekend, one of the largest such sites in America. The group temporarily closed access to the location – although officials said the measure was merely a precautionary measure.
Their ranks were filled with fringe figures who also recently attended other far-right actions, such as raids on shops at the malls and the January 6 rally that preceded the attack on the country’s Capitol. The anti-mask events in Los Angeles in particular drew criticism, while opponents contrasted the light police response to the force that targeted racial protests last year.
Authorities, including Los Angeles Fire Department officials, temporarily stopped allowing 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.
Still, people awaiting vaccinations described the protest – in which marchers waved disinformation-rich signs over masks and vaccinations, both safe and effective – as the latest complication in the administrative nightmare of securing a shot.
“The protesters against the growth approached the entrance to the site. The LAPD has now closed the gate. We sit here for about half an hour. Nobody moves, ” indie rocker Mikel Jollett tweeted, who was at the site that accompanied his mother.
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Prior to the rally, ads circulated on Facebook pages against vaccination, including one notorious for leading maskless raids on stores in Los Angeles called Shop Mask Free Los Angeles. The group was one of the first to hype the action, the Los Angeles Times previously reported.
The group was the focus of other protesters grabbing the heads, including a maskless raid on a shopping mall in LA in early January, during which participants slammed doors and demanded access to shopping malls while masked workers tried to lock up.
Among the various leaflets promoting the vaccine event on Facebook pages against vaccination and closure was a request that participants actively hide their pro-Trump tendencies.
“Clothing,” one read. ‘As much as it’s sad to ask, please do not wear Trump / MAGA attire, because we want our statement to resonate with the sheep. No flags, but information signs welcome! ”
Administrators of Shop Mask Free Los Angeles have not returned a request for comment on whether they organized the event at Dodger Stadium. California resident Bryna Makowka, who attended the rally but denied it was organized, told The Daily Beast the event was organized by a man in a high hat whose name she does not know.
That man, Jason Lefkowitz, was one of the first to promote the event on Facebook. On Twitter, where he claims to have called the police in advance to inform them of the protest, he had previously implied that he had arranged an anti-mask shopping event in December. (He did not return a request for comment.)
Another ranger, Asefeh Shirafkan, shared video of herself during a number of rallies, including the demonstration outside Dodger Stadium, a maskless confrontation in a Target and the January 6 rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol has. Shirafkan, who apparently did not enter the Capitol, recently tweeted a photo of herself in DC with Vincent Fusca, a man many believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory falsely believe was JFK Jr. is in disguise.
For comment, Shirafkan sends a text to The Daily Beast “fuck off” and a plea to watch a video about Bill Gates.
Actor Siaka Massaquoi, who did not return a request for comment, also filmed himself outside the Capitol (after which he apparently did not enter) and during Dodger Stadium. “It’s great to protest sheep running to get a vaccine you do not need !!” he wrote on Instagram. “The authorities closed the entrance so much because they were afraid we would ‘storm’.”
Navarro – whose campaign office did not respond to a request for comment – watched his video 32,000 times outside Dodger Stadium.
“The real virus is the Democrats,” he said on Facebook Live. “It’s the real virus, guys.”