A climate protester was injured after he fell while climbing the facade of a bank in New York City.
A video of the incident shows the protester scaling the Manhattan bank while other protesters chanted “people over profit” to the beat of a drum and a man, who did not appear to be part of the protest, warned the climber to “get down” repeatedly. The protester was able to climb to the height of an overhang above the bank’s first-floor entrance before he lost his grip and fell to the ground.
As the protester moaned in pain, black paint seeped from his backpack, and a crowd surrounded him as the group waited for emergency services to arrive. EMS took the protester to Bellevue, a public hospital in Manhattan, according to the New York Post, and the protest continued.
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The protesters carried signs emblazoned with the logo of Extinction Rebellion, a decentralized organization of climate activists, and were protesting against the expansion of the Line 3 pipeline, which was built in the 1960s to carry oil from Canada to terminals in the United States. The expansion has been met with protest from environmental activists, who have targeted banks, including Chase, for their reported funding of Enbridge, the company that owns the pipeline. Chase did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
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The pipeline received final approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in November. President Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure from left-wing activists to cancel the project. Biden revoked permits for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office and instituted a 100-day moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
Climate activists oppose the pipeline’s route, which traverses tribal lands in Minnesota, and claim the pipeline will “threaten the culture, way of life, and physical survival of the Ojibwe people.” Stop Line 3, an organization focused on stopping the pipeline, claims that the “man camps” that house pipeline workers will bring racism, violence, misogyny, and drug and alcohol abuse to the communities in which they are constructed.
