{"id":452690,"date":"2021-04-25T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=452690"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:20:43","slug":"thousands-in-london-protest-against-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-in-london-protest-against-vaccine-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands In London Protest Against Vaccine Passports"},"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%2Fthousands-in-london-protest-against-vaccine-passports%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=452690&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3683.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Thousands of protesters on Saturday marched through London to express their frustration with COVID-19 restrictions, which may soon include vaccine passports to prove inoculations.<\/p>\n<p>London mayoral candidates Laurence Fox and David Kurten attended the march which started in Hyde Park and snaked through the city around 1 p.m. When police tried to break up the demonstration, protesters turned violent, hurling rocks and bottles at police. Eight officers were injured and five protesters arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight officers were injured as they worked to disperse crowds in Hyde Park this evening,\u201d London police wrote on Twitter. \u201cMissiles including bottles were thrown in small pockets of disorder. Two officers were taken to hospital. Thankfully, they are not believed to be seriously injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.481481481481\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/2 \u2013 Eight officers were injured as they  worked to disperse crowds in Hyde Park this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Missiles including bottles were thrown in small pockets of disorder. Two officers were taken to hospital. Thankfully, they are not believed to be seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Metropolitan Police Events (@MetPoliceEvents) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetPoliceEvents\/status\/1386056922508537861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The thousands of activists gathered for a \u201cUnite for Freedom\u201d protest centered around demanding a ban on vaccine passports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cPhotographs posted on social media show a female police officer bleeding from a cut to her head, while another suffered a similar wound on his forehead,\u201d The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9507223\/Thousands-anti-lockdown-activists-march-central-London.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cA Met Police spokesman said two officers were taken to hospital after protesters turned violent last night. They added: \u2018Eight officers were injured as they worked to disperse crowds in Hyde Park this evening. Missiles including bottles were thrown in small pockets of disorder. Two officers were taken to hospital. Thankfully, they are not believed to be seriously injured.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protesters carried signs saying \u201cno new normal\u201d and \u201cno health passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protest came amid government discussions to implement \u201cCovid-status certificates,\u201d which would be held by those who have had the vaccines and shown upon request by authorities. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson has opposed the passports, saying they would be \u201cintrusive, costly and unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The passport plan has emerged in the U.S., too. Last month, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new program that will require New Yorkers to show a COVID-19 \u201cpassport\u201d to enter sports arenas, theaters, and other businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The plan establishes an \u201cExcelsior Pass\u201d which will use secure technology to prove that a state resident has been vaccinated against COVID-19 or has had a recent negative test. Sites included in the rollout plan include Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center, both sports and entertainment venues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilar to a mobile airline boarding pass, individuals will be able to either print out their pass or store it on their smartphones using the Excelsior Pass\u2019s \u2018Wallet App,\u2019\u201d a press release on the governor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-cuomo-announces-pilot-program-testing-excelsior-pass-madison-square-garden-and\">webpage<\/a> indicates. \u201cEach pass will have a secure QR code, which venues will scan using a companion app to confirm someone\u2019s COVID health status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the pilot program will be used to enhance the quality of the application, maximizing return on investment and saving development time, prior to submission to Apple and Google for approval to go into their app stores,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>But Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants no part of passports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply participate in normal society,\u201d the governor said. \u201cYou want to go to a movie theater, should you have to show that? No. You want to go to a game, a theme park? No. So we\u2019re not supportive of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always said we wanted to provide it for all but mandate it for none,\u201d DeSantis said at a press conference last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2021\/03\/30\/982837517\/florida-gov-desantis-rejects-vaccine-passports-as-completely-unacceptable\">NPR<\/a> reported. \u201cAnd that was something that, while it was advised to take particularly if you\u2019re vulnerable, we were not going to force you to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of protesters on Saturday marched through London to express their frustration with COVID-19 restrictions, which may soon include vaccine passports to prove inoculations.London mayoral candidates Laurence Fox and David &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888321,"comment_status":"close","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/452690","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}