Those climate protesters who tried to blockade the entrance are probably laughing now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8fDM60MS84
(Though it seems unlikely that a particular rainstorm could be attributed to climate change.)
(Though it seems unlikely that a particular rainstorm could be attributed to climate change.)
I get that blocking the road isn't cool at the best of times, but feel this could've been handled better.
I'm not from the US, so had no clue who Rangers are (are they like police?). To me, at first they looked like hire a cop from the festival. While it looked like the first Ranger truck started a dialog, another decided to go a more violent route. There are a few cuts in the vid there, so it's not clear how long dialog was tried or what happened during that time and how justified the violent end was.
Coming from a country where police are generally pretty chill unless really provoked, how this was ended seemed extreme to me.
The comments in the vid kinda scare me tbh. It'll all fun and games, till you're at the receiving end, or someone dies.
* Bureau of Land Management law enforcement rangers https://www.blm.gov/programs/law-enforcement/what-we-do
are not the same thing as
* Black Rock Rangers, a self-organized volunteer safety team of Burners https://burningman.org/event/participate/volunteering/teams/...
And neither are the same thing as Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police, which others have said is who is featured in the video. I have no idea. But the uniforms of the three different entities probably don't look much alike.
gasps!