Fri Dec 17, 2021 – 1:37 pm EST
QUEENS, New York (LifeSiteNews) — In stunning footage evocative of pre-Civil Rights era discrimination, multiple restaurant-goers in New York City were arrested by police Wednesday for daring to order food without showing proof of vaccination against COVID-19.
The four would-be-diners were arrested at an Applebee’s restaurant in Queens, New York, where they were staging a sit-in to protest a citywide mandate requiring individuals to show proof of vaccination as a condition of entry to public establishments.
Videos show the protestors being surrounded by law enforcement officers and arrested with their hands zip-tied behind their backs, then taken outside where they are loaded up into the back of a police van [Warning: foul language]:
#BreakingNews multiple protesters against mandates were just arrested at Applebee’s in queens NY for trying to order food at a vaxed only restaurants pic.twitter.com/adZ0qJybwC
— Leeroy Johnson (@LeeroyPress) December 16, 2021
Since August, all people entering indoor public spaces in New York City have been required to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in compliance with a mandate forwarded by the city’s outgoing Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Effective December 14, de Blasio expanded
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