The Photographer Who Took Photos Of People In Scrubs Blocking Anti-Lockdown Protesters In Denver

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The Photographer Who Took The Viral Photos Of People In Scrubs Blocking Anti-Lockdown Protesters In Denver Described What Happened




Like millions of others in the US, Alyson McClaran, a Denver-based freelance photographer, is out of work during the lockdown. So she decided to go to the state Capitol on Sunday to photograph hundreds of people who had gathered there to protest the stay-at-home order in the Colorado capital. "I wanted to document history," McClaran told BuzzFeed News on Monday.

The protest, dubbed Operation Gridlock, is part of a wave of similar demonstrations across the country by right-wing groups and conservatives who are calling for an end to lockdown measures implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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While walking toward her home from the Capitol, McClaran saw two people in scrubs and N95 masks standing in the middle of the street to block anti-lockdown protesters from going to the Capitol. "This is it. This is what I needed," McClaran said, recalling the moment she witnessed the striking scene.

McClaran's photos of the scene perfectly captured the ongoing tension in the US amid the coronavirus pandemic: Conservative demonstrators, supported by President Donald Trump, are fighting against stay-at-home orders and demanding states be reopened, while health care workers are risking their lives fighting against the deadly pandemic that has taken more than 40,000 lives in the country.

McClaran said people in the cars were continually honking at the man and the woman in scrubs, but they both stood their ground even as the light turned green. One woman in a car, holding a "Land of the Free" poster, leaned out of her window and repeatedly yelled at the male counterprotester to "go to China" and other "hateful" things, McClaran said.



"Go to China if you want communism," the woman yelled at him. "Go to China!"

"You go to work. Why can’t I go to work?” the woman continued. “I’ve saved people’s lives too!"

"The nurses just stood their ground," McClaran said. "They were very peaceful, and I didn't hear a single word come out of the guy's mouth."

After the light turned green, police officers asked the two counterprotesters to move out of the roadway and they complied, a spokesperson for the Denver Police Department told BuzzFeed News. They were not cited.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Hat's off to the nurses who stood their ground in the face of stupidity.

They did the right thing.

[aeromanKC]

2. Tiananman Square'esque

[Kid Berwyn]

3. The Goddess of Democracy

[SledDriver]

4. This sums it up

[gratuitous]

5. Cops asked the nurse to move along rather than block traffic

I wonder why the Nitwit Brigades were allowed to block traffic with impunity, even keeping ambulances away from a hospital. Blocking traffic is certainly a funny thing; allowable and understandable in some circumstances, worse than Hitler times Stalin squared in others.

[C Moon]

6. That unhealthy looking woman hanging out of the car will, considering her appearance...

be needing a nurses aid in the near future;
What will she say then? Go to China?

[Warpy]

7. Our Tienanmen Square moment

The man with the plastic bag facing down the line of tanks. Two pissed off health care workers facing down a line of raging morons.

This plus the morons trying to block ambulances are two big reasons this dipshit protest is creating blowback.

[colorado_ufo]

8. Ron White said it so well:

"There's no cure for stupid."