{"id":2026869,"date":"2023-09-09T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-environmental-protesters-who-delayed-us-open-hit-with-criminal-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T20:00:39","slug":"radical-environmental-protesters-who-delayed-us-open-hit-with-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-environmental-protesters-who-delayed-us-open-hit-with-criminal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open disrupted by radical environmental protesters now facing criminal charges."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fradical-environmental-protesters-who-delayed-us-open-hit-with-criminal-charges%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=2026869&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--><h2>Protesters Face \u2062Criminal Charges for \u2063Disrupting US Open Match<\/h2>\n<p>Two protesters who made headlines for\u200d their disruptive actions during \u2062a semi-final match \u200bat the US Open are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-of-the-zombie-era\/\" title=\"Attack of the Zombie ERA\">facing criminal charges<\/a>. Gregory Schwedock and Sayak Mukhopadhyay\u2062 were charged with \u2064criminal trespass and disorderly conduct after their environmental\u200d protest \u200bcaused a 50-minute delay in the game.<\/p>\n<h3>The Protest<\/h3>\n<p>During the match between Coco Gauff and Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1, Schwedock, Mukhopadhyay, and another protester stood up and shouted &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">end fossil fuels<\/a>.&#8221; Their actions caught the attention of the New York City Police, who responded to reports\u2064 of disorderly behavior.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Personnel from the Emergency Service Unit responded and \u200bwere able to safely free the male and take him into custody,&#8221; police said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Raising\u200c Awareness for an Existential \u2062Threat<\/h3>\n<p>Mukhopadhyay later explained that \u2064the protest aimed \u2062to raise awareness about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda\/\" title=\"CNN Asks Jen Psaki How It Can Help Push Joe Biden\u2019s Agenda\">existential threat posed<\/a> by climate change. He stated, &#8220;There is no tennis on a\u200d dead \u2064planet. There is no art on a dead planet. Everything\u2062 that\u200c we take for granted as \u2062our way of life will cease to exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Player&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Although the \u200dprotest caused a delay in\u2063 the match, Coco Gauff expressed understanding and support for the protesters. She said, &#8220;I always speak\u2064 about preaching about what you feel and what you believe in. It was done in a peaceful way, so I can&#8217;t get \u200btoo mad at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the disruption, Gauff went on to win the match 6-4, 7-5, while the crowd booed the protesters and shouted insults as they\u200b were taken away\u200b by the police.<\/p>\n<h3>Extinction Rebellion&#8217;s Involvement<\/h3>\n<p>The radical environmentalist group, Extinction Rebellion, \u200bclaimed responsibility\u200d for the protest. They stated that the action aimed to highlight \u2062the neglect of \u2063the\u200b climate and ecological breakdown\u2063 by governments and corporations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The group emphasizes that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-environmental-protesters-who-delayed-us-open-hit-with-criminal-charges\/\" title=\"US Open disrupted by radical environmental protesters now facing criminal charges.\">present \u200dsocioeconomic system<\/a> can&#8217;t protect people from the crises to come because its very \u200bstructure\u2063 creates these crises and then ignores them,&#8221; the group said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1694271417371000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0PLikBYdCi-jK-0C-P9dx2\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US Open protesters, Gregory Schwedock and Sayak Mukhopadhyay, face criminal charges for disrupting a semi-final match. They were charged with criminal trespass as they protested against fossil fuels. Schwedock, 35, from New York City, and Mukhopadhyay, 50, from White Plains, New York, were involved in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2026870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}