Laura Loomer of Rebel Media ran up on stage and began chastising the production company for its insensitivity regarding the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise.
Stop the normalization of political violence against the right. This is violence against Donald Trump.”
She was joined in the protest by her colleague Jack Posobiec, who stood up in the audience and shouted about Steve Scalise and compared the Public Theater to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands! You are all Goebbels,”
Posobiec taped the episode on his phone and posed the video on his Twitter account. His critique of the play and its content was especially harsh.
It’s very gory. It’s very bloody. It looked like Quentin Tarantino. And the audience is cheering this. Made my blood run cold.”
In Twitter exchanges, Posobiec noted the play “turned my stomach.”
Loomer shouted out “The Public Theater is ISIS” and soon afterward was arrested by New York City police. She was charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing.
Already a legal defense fund has been started to help her, find that HERE:
After the brief interruption, the play continued. Play director Oskar Eustis accused Loomer and Posobiec of being paid to disrupt the performance.
Both protesters denied Eustis’ claim. Posobiec has threatened to sue The Public Theater for defamation. He later provided video of Loomer’s release from police custody at the Central Park Precinct.
Posobiec and Loomer came under fire on Twitter from traditional conservatives like Ben Shapiro and David French. But Posobiec retorted that the disruption accomplished getting a strong message out against leftist violence.
We went to one play and accomplished more for the message than the millions donated to think tanks and handed to K Street. Let that sink in.”
The Julius Caesar production has prompted a strong backlash from Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump, Jr., who claim it displays the irrational hostility to the right from left-wingers that has driven the violence seen in this week’s shooting in Alexandria.
Source: The Hill
Press conference:
You guys never of the play Julius Caesar?
We’d be racists..against blacks and women???
True statement.
Isn’t it amazing that the woman saying “STOP INCITING VIOLENCE AGAINST OUR PRESIDENT!” is arrested for her free speech, but the ones inciting violence against our president are NOT arrested?
And threw stuff on their clothes like they do to us.
It is interesting that I is blacks killing a white man
I don’t know when it became acceptable to promote the assination of a president or any of our leaders. Think type of rhetoric has got to stop.
Good for her.
I don’t know but it might have to come to that because st some point the victim has to fight back