![]() ![]() Protesters from ‘ReOpen California’ demonstrate outside the State Capitol in Sacramento. People who showed no symptoms could still spread the virus, Newsom warned the protesters. ![]() You don’t want to contract this disease.” “We recognize the economic pain.”īut the availability of testing for coronavirus had also lagged in rural areas, Newsom said later, highlighting the dangers of reopening the economy too quickly.Īsked about his response to protesters calling him a tyrant and a fascist, Newsom simply urged Californians to “take care of yourself”. “We’re paying attention to you,” Newsom said, speaking to the state’s rural residents. In his Friday news conference, Newsom said he empathized with the protesters’ “frustration and concern and deeply understandable anxiety about the economy and the fate and future of their families”, and said that the state was trying to work closely to respond to the concerns of more rural areas of the state. Modoc county, in the state’s far north-east, near Oregon, had no Covid-19 cases, a local official told the Associated Press. The rallies across California against Newsom’s stay-at-home orders came as a rural county in northern California became the first to defy statewide orders by allowing nonessential businesses to reopen and diners to eat in restaurants. Other protests were smaller: only about 150 people rallied in San Francisco, and hundreds in San Diego, according to local news reports. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The CHP repeatedly ordered the protesters to disperse, the Sacramento Bee reported, and by 3pm, a line of law enforcement in full riot gear had slowly pushed protesters back from the capitol steps towards the street.Ī surfer taking part in the protest in Huntington Beach. ![]() The California Highway Patrol (CHP) had announced that it would be barring protests at the capitol because of a lack of social distancing by participants at a previous rally, but protesters gathered on the steps of the building regardless, chanting “Whose house? Our house!” Almost none of the protesters were wearing masks, according to reporters and photographers at the scene. Some protesters held signs promoting anti-vaccine conspiracies or questioning whether the coronavirus is real, while others protested the closure of businesses during the pandemic, arguing that all jobs are essential. “Traitors!” the protesters screamed at police, according to a livestream of the protest produced by reporters from the Sacramento Bee. ![]() In Sacramento, the state’s capital, a packed crowd of protesters faced off with lines of riot cops in a tense and chaotic protest on Friday afternoon. Many of the Huntington Beach protesters brought their children along with them, the Los Angeles Times reported, with one protester saying he had come with his wife and three young children because it was important to show that the protesters are “normal people”. “I didn’t do that to come back here and live under a tyrant in my own country.” “I served in the army and fought tyrants and dictators overseas and this has gone too far,” one protester told the Los Angeles Times. A crowd of protesters calling to reopen businesses and beaches in Huntington Beach, California. ![]()
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