A New York City man went viral on Monday for throwing pizza slices at city hall to protest newly proposed carbon-emissions standards that target Big Apple pizzerias.
What is the background?
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection drafted new rules to regulate coal and wood-fired ovens installed in restaurants prior to May 2016. The rules would require restaurants with such ovens to install emission-control systems that cost tens of thousands of dollars to install and maintain.
The devices will allegedly cut carbon emissions by 75%.
NYC DEP spokesperson Ted Timbers claimed:
All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality. This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible.
What happened on Monday?
In a video posted to Twitter, artist Scott LoBaido carried five boxes of pizza to city hall and proceeded to condemn the city for prioritizing progressive and woke issues to the detriment of education and public safety.
“The woke-ass idiots who run this city are doing everything in their power to destroy it. We have naked men with their titties bouncing around all over the city yesterday, in public, in front of children,” LoBaido said.
“We have the most violent, raging crime rate ever. We are being in invaded by illegal immigrants who are being treated way better than our homeless veterans. Our teachers and first responder heroes who were fired— still not compensated because they didn’t take the Fauci injection,” LoBaido continued.
“Our city schools produce the dumbest kids and the woke-ass punks who run New York City are afraid of pizza. The world used to respect New Yorkers as tough, thick-skinned, and gritty. Now we have become pussified. It’s a damn shame,” LoBaido declared. “You heard of the Boston Tea Party. This is the New York Pizza Party. Give us pizza or give us death.”
In true “Breaking Bad”-style, LoBaido then threw the pizza slice-by-slice onto the city hall property.
“Give us pizza or give us death,” he shouted.
At the end of the video, two New York City Police officers approached LoBaido. It’s not clear what happened during their interaction, but LoBaido was not arrested.
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