{"id":2027012,"date":"2023-09-09T20:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-protesters-get-taste-of-justice-after-pulling-stunt-at-us-open\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:15:55","slug":"climate-protesters-get-taste-of-justice-after-pulling-stunt-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-protesters-get-taste-of-justice-after-pulling-stunt-at-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate protesters face consequences for US Open stunt."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fclimate-protesters-get-taste-of-justice-after-pulling-stunt-at-us-open%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=2027012&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>Climate Protesters Disrupt U.S. Open Semifinal \u200cTennis Match<\/h2>\n<p>Two men\u200d have been charged after they decided to stage a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-protesters-descend-on-white-house-sing-songs-and-vandalize-andrew-jackson-statue\/\" title=\"Climate Protesters Descend On White House, Sing Songs, And Vandalize Andrew Jackson Statue\">climate protest<\/a> during a U.S. Open semifinal tennis match on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sayak Mukhopadhyay, 50, was \u200bcharged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-governor-cuomo-grants-clemency-to-illegal-aliens-to-help-them-remain-in-the-u-s\/\" title=\"NY Governor Cuomo Grants Clemency To Illegal Aliens To Help Them Remain In The U.S.\">criminal trespass<\/a> \u200cand disorderly conduct, while Gregory Schwedock, 35, was charged with\u2064 criminal trespass, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/us-open-protesters-charged-criminal-trespass-disrupting-match-rcna104051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fracas began while \u2064American Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova \u2063of Czechia battled it out in\u2063 the second set under the Arthur Ashe Stadium lights in Queens, \u2062New York.<\/p>\n<p>Mukhopadhyay, Schwedock \u200dand another \u200dprotester, Lindiwe Priscilla Krasin, stood up in the stands and\u2062 chanted, \u201cEnd fossil fuels!\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-protesters-get-taste-of-justice-after-pulling-stunt-at-us-open\/\" title=\"Climate protesters face consequences for US Open stunt.\">activists\u200b sported shirts<\/a> with \u200cthe same message.<\/p>\n<p>Mukhopadhyay had glued his bare feet to the floor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Coco\u2063 Gauff\u2019s US Open semi-final against Karolina Muchova halted by climate \u200cchange \u2062protestors in the stands. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/usopen?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#usopen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qded3qEYBN\">pic.twitter.com\/qded3qEYBN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2063Matt Majendie (@mattmajendie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattmajendie\/status\/1699938783536250962?\">September\u200b 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The crowd \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/crowd-24000-turns-climate-protesters-antics-delay-us-open-semifinal-nearly-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">booed<\/a> the protesters \u2063and ultimately cheered\u200b as \u200bthey were removed from the stadium by \u2064police. The protest caused \u2063a nearly 50-minute delay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Final \u2062protestor has been escorted\u200b out of\u200d the stadium. Players likely to\u2062 return to court \u200dshortly. It\u2019s been a 35-minute delay. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1HMU2CyjG8\">pic.twitter.com\/1HMU2CyjG8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Majendie (@mattmajendie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattmajendie\/status\/1699947454798385268?\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Mukhopadhyay and Krasin spoke with NBC\u200c about why they felt \u200cthe need\u200b to disrupt\u200d the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no tennis on \u200da dead planet,\u201d\u00a0Mukhopadhyay said. \u201cThere is no art\u2064 on a dead planet, everything that we take for granted\u2064 as \u200bour way of life will cease to \u2063exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand the discomfort that the audience felt,\u201d Krasin said.\u2063 \u201cBut \u200dwe can no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racist-pigs-purple-haired-delivery-driver-allegedly-smashes-elderly-couples-groceries-over-pro-police-sign\/\" title=\"\u2018Racist Pigs:\u2019 Purple-Haired Delivery Driver Allegedly Smashes Elderly Couple\u2019s Groceries Over Pro-Police Sign\">longer feel comfortable<\/a> at a time like this. We need the\u200b wake up \u200ccalls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only a matter of\u2064 time before things get much worse. So I protested because I\u2019m\u200c terrified,\u201d she\u2063 added.<\/p>\n<p>After play resumed, \u2063Gauff won the match. She commented on the protest afterward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was \u200bdone in \u200ba peaceful way, so I can\u2019t get too mad at it,\u201d she said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38348965\/protesters-force-50-minute-delay-gauff-muchova-us-open-semifinal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously I don\u2019t want it to happen when \u200cI\u2019m winning \u2026 and \u2062I wanted\u200d the momentum to\u200d keep going. But hey, if \u2062that\u2019s what they felt they needed\u200b to do\u200d to \u200cget\u200c their \u2063voices\u200d heard, I can\u2019t\u200c really\u2064 get upset at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident was just the latest in a string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/climate-activists-block-road-refuse-move-change-heart-nevada-rangers-truck-comes-speeding-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-dismisses-greta-thunberg-as-uneducated-for-calling-out-beijing\/\" title=\"China Dismisses Greta Thunberg as Uneducated for Calling Out Beijing\">climate protests<\/a><\/a> at sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Wimbledon\u200c in July, two matches were interrupted when environmental activists \u200bjumped out of the stands \u2026 and \u200dscattered orange confetti \u2064on the grass,\u201d ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters pulled a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oil-protesters-attempt-disrupt-british-open-thwarted-american-player-gas-powered-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stunt<\/a> at this year\u2019s British Open, \u200dlighting a flare that left behind \u200dpowdery orange residue on the \u200bcourse. \u2063Four individuals were arrested in \u200dthat incident.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/climate-protesters-get-taste-justice-pulling-stunt-us-open\/\">Climate Protesters Get Taste of Justice After Pulling\u2062 Stunt at \u2064US Open<\/a> \u2064appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The \u2063Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men, Sayak Mukhopadhyay and Gregory Schwedock, were charged after staging a climate protest during a U.S. Open semifinal tennis match. Mukhopadhyay, 50, faced charges of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct, while Schwedock, 35, was charged with criminal trespass. The incident occurred during the match between Coco Gauff and Karolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":2027013,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2027012","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\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}