{"id":2025758,"date":"2023-09-08T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-us-open-crowd-boos-annoying-climate-activists\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:17:19","slug":"watch-us-open-crowd-boos-annoying-climate-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-us-open-crowd-boos-annoying-climate-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: US Open Spectators Boo Climate Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-us-open-crowd-boos-annoying-climate-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Annoyed Attendees Boo Climate\u200b Protesters at U.S. Open<\/h2>\n<p>Annoyed attendees at the U.S. Open booed climate protesters who halted the women&#8217;s semi-final between American Coco Gauff and Czech Karolina Muchova for \u200dnearly an hour on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With Gauff up a set and holding serve to open \u200dthe second, a\u200c disturbance erupted in the upper bowl of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the sport&#8217;s largest venue with a seating capacity of \u2062over 23,000. As players looked into the stands, security flooded into the section \u200baround where protesters were shouting. The surrounding crowd shouted back, &#8220;<strong>Kick them out!<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Disrupting major events appear to be a trend with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressives-push-biden-to-include-10-trillion-climate-plan-in-infrastructure-package\/\" title=\"Progressives Push Biden to Include  Trillion Climate Plan in Infrastructure Package\">climate groups<\/a>\u200c this\u2063 year. &#8220;Just\u2063 Stop Oil&#8221; protesters interrupted play at Wimbledon in July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-us-open-crowd-boos-annoying-climate-activists\/\" title=\"VIDEO: US Open Spectators Boo Climate Activists\">releasing orange ticker-tape mixed<\/a> with jigsaw puzzle pieces during matches. Other \u2064climate activists <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-climate-activists-wail-as-nevada-cops-flatten-roadblock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sobbed and screamed<\/a> as Nevada police removed their road \u2062barricade, which caused a\u2064 miles-long backup for attendees of the Burning\u2063 Man festival last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We plan\u2063 for it,&#8221; Chris Widmaier, a spokesman for the United States<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> Tennis \u2062 <\/span>Association (USTA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/07\/sports\/tennis\/protest-stops-us-open-semifinal-match.html?partner=slack&#038;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;We prepare for \u2062a lot\u200c of things. \u2063To my knowledge, this kind of protest seems to be happening at other places.\u2064 We are\u2063 very aware of environmental protests. It happened \u200cat Wimbledon. It happened at the Citi\u200b Open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>USTA issued a statement confirming four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-most-chaotic-moments-from-climate-protests-in-the-last-week\/\" title=\"Top 5 Chaotic Moments in Recent Climate Protests\">climate \u2064protesters<\/a> were taken into NYPD custody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three of the four \u2063protesters were escorted\u200c out of the stadium\u2062 without further incident,&#8221; the USTA statement said. &#8220;The \u200dfourth protester affixed their \u200cbare feet \u2063to the floor of the seating \u2064bowl. Due to the nature of this action, NYPD and medical personnel were \u2064needed in order to safely\u2063 remove this individual from the stadium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photographs \u2062of the scene showed protesters wearing shirts with the slogan, &#8220;<strong>End Fossil Fuels.<\/strong>&#8221; \u200cPlayers were escorted off the court by \u200ba USTA official and returned for a warm-up 45 minutes later before play resumed.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Steve Keating in New York; Editing by Gerry Doyle, Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate protesters disrupted the U.S. Open women&#8217;s semi-final between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova, causing an hour-long delay. Annoyed attendees booed as the disturbance occurred in the upper bowl of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the tournament&#8217;s main venue. 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