
Tens of thousands of New York City workers are marching in protest of the city’s Covid vaccine mandate.
New York City police, firefighters, first responders, and other essential city workers gathered in Brooklyn Monday to march in defiance of Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate.
Thousands marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall holding signs that said “Coercion Is Not Consent,” “No Forced Vax,” and “I Thought We Were Essential.”
Last week, de Blasio issued an order mandating that all New York City employees, including firefighters, police officers, first responders, and sanitation workers get the Covid injection or face termination.
MASSIVE turnout at NYC’s anti-vaccine mandate protest across the Brooklyn Bridge. HOLD THE LINE
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— RSBN
(@RSBNetwork) October 25, 2021
Here’s the scene at FDNY HQ in downtown Brooklyn, as city workers get ready to rally and march across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall, in protest of the city’s vaccine mandate. @wcbs880 pic.twitter.com/c3qTKJ1XRG
— Mack Rosenberg (@MackRosenberg) October 25, 2021
Hundreds of people including FDNY, EMS, SDNY and NYPD have gathered in Brooklyn to protest the vaccine mandates in NYC pic.twitter.com/PMaY2fKf45
— Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) October 25, 2021
“F Your Garbage and DeBlasio” chant municipal workers as thousands crossed Brooklyn Bridge to protest vaccination mandates in NYC pic.twitter.com/ifa598LIHC
— Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) October 25, 2021
“Hold The Line” Chant what appears to be thousand of municipal workers including FDNY, EMS, NYPD and SDNY #HappeningNow in Brooklyn Bridge pic.twitter.com/JwrRMCqKGq
— Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) October 25, 2021
Hundreds, many FDNY and NYPD, are about to March across Brooklyn Bridge to protest @NYCMayor vaccine mandate for city workers. Latest on @CBSNewYork pic.twitter.com/wk7GvySTmQ
— John Dias (@JohnBDias) October 25, 2021
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra condemned the anti-mandate workers as “selfish”
Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighter Association, said earlier this month that over half of NYC firefighters took the injection, but feared the mandate will lead to operational problems rather than more vaccinations.
“I think two weeks from now, when the day comes, we may have some serious operational difficulties when firehouses have to get closed,” Ansbro said.
“They’ll show up to the firehouses and the fire department is going to have to tell them to go home and leave the city unprotected because they tell them to leave the firehouse.”