Posted on 10/04/2022 6:50:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Los Angeles Rams linebackers Bobby Wagner and Takkarist McKinley tackled an animal rights activist who disrupted the team’s game against the San Francisco 49ers during Monday Night Football.
Just before halftime, a member of Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights group, who were attending Monday night’s game ran across the 49ers Levi’s Stadium with a device releasing red and pink smoke to raise awareness about a massive pig factory farm allegedly hiding its abuses inside the facility.
The nonprofit reports Allison Fluty and Alex Taylor were cited, with one still in police custody, after running onto the field at separate points during the second quarter.
ESPN reports one evaded security and rushed toward the Rams’ sideline when McKinley and Wagner took matters into their own hands and laid out the protester near the 40-yard line. The other protester ran out onto the field with a similar device earlier in the game but was apprehended by security.
Monday night’s incident marks the second time a fan ran onto the field with a device letting out pink smoke during a game. The animal rights group interrupted the season-opening Bills-Rams game last month with two activists running onto the field, TMZ reported.
The protesters who rushed the field hoped to raise awareness about a trial involving two of the group’s activists. Five members of Direct Action Everywhere allegedly snuck onto Circle Four Farms in Milford, Utah, back in 2017 and recorded themselves taking two piglets that they said were being treated inhumanely.
Wayne Hsiung and Paul Darwin Picklesimer, the two remaining defendants facing charges, could face more than ten years in prison on felony burglary and theft charges.
“Smithfield will do anything to hide its abuses from the public because they know that if people saw what is happening inside factory farms, they would be horrified,” Taylor has said.
“They are going to great lengths to throw two of my friends in prison for years simply for investigating their farms and rescuing sick and dying piglets,” he added, according to Direct Action Everywhere. “I took action to raise awareness about the ongoing Smithfield trial.”
The Spectrum reports that representatives for Smithfield Foods, which owns Circle Four Farms, have called the videos deceptive, and told The Washington Post that the activists were “trespassing onto company property, breaking into a barn, stealing animals and violating Smithfield’s strict biosecurity policy to prevent the spread of disease onto our farms.”
NFL Ping!........................
Wonder if two three hundred pound white guys had slammed a skinny black guy under the exact same circumstances, if the reporting would be any different?
(That said, I am OK with hurting people like this.)
So only players can protest at a game?
He should have just burned an American flag at the 50 yard line. The NFL players would have been okay with that.
Disrupting a sporting event is illegal in just about everywhere......................
I was just about to shame you for going there, because why would you automatically think in terms of race, but to be perfectly honest, now that you raise the question, I’m almost positive that if it was two white players in full pads and uniform and if the protestor was black, you’d have people in the media like whoopie goldberg and such asking if it was racism.
I hope he has a couple broken ribs!....................
The reporter clearly sympathizes with the "protester's" "cause", and uses the article to publicize it.
Wayne Hsiung
Paul Darwin Picklesimer
Allison Fluty
Alex Taylor
Say their names!
I am not surprised that this activist names Smithfield as an animal abuser. It was purchased several years ago by China, and we all know what terrible animal abusers the Chinese are. I applaud his trying to improve the treatment of the pigs, but he should have found a better way to do it.
At least the guy didn’t set fire to himself:
One would hope the Coach would ping their performance at the team meetings on Mondays.
COACH: What kind of damned hit is that? You guys hit like little girls. Next time, I want you to lay into them.”
That guy did a lousy job. He obviously didn’t attend the Monk School of Self-Immolation.
First football I’ve watched all year.
The average animal rights activist usually doesn’t care much for animals and if you observe them, you start to wonder if they’re actually sort of....sadistic. (In this case, masochistic.)
He should have chosen Empower Field at Denver... he NEVER would have been tackled!
Both players should get a sack added to their records!...................
You mean Ford Field in Detroit.
I liked the phrase on their helmet backs - Pros enjoy tasty animals
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