70 'Extinction Rebellion NYC' activists arrested blocking street outside NYT Building

70 environmental activists with "Extinction Rebellion NYC" shut down the streets in front of the The New York Times headquarters. The group says that the media, including NYT, are complicit in minimizing climate change, which they see as a "catastrophe" and form of "genocide."

A New York Times spokesperson told CNN, "There is no national news organization that devotes more time, staff or resources to producing deeply reported coverage to help readers understand climate change than The New York Times."

"Climate change is mass murder!" chanted the remaining activists as they awaited arrest. "Tell the truth! Tell the truth!"

"I don't care about your plastic straws," one activist told News2Share contributor Ed Fabry. "We need to hold the people in power accountable for the damage they're doing to the environment."

Filmed by News2Share contributor Ed Fabry

Special Thanks to Patreon Contributors Robert Caputo, and Lee Enochs

[zelixleo]

Privileged kids. I'm certain most of them don't have jobs

[jbelle]

Plastic bags, signs, food containers, cell phones, sunglasses, make up, shall I go on?

[OCALLARM]

Kids without problems fealing guilty for not having problems.

[dawn]

They should have NEVER LEGALIZE MARIJUANA! These people have COMPLETELY LOST THEIR

[kennethslayor]

This is sufficiently like the 60's to suggest the organizers are being inspired and manipulated by our enemies, the same enemies we had during the Cold War.

[lancethegimpyfisherman]

She doesn't care for plastic straws how about her plastic glasses the hypocrite is wearing

[colleenrenee]

What NGO finances these confused people?!

[junioralsept]

Did she just say she is a global citizen.. Why don't you go to Saudi Arabia and see how fast being a global citizen prison time

[dawn]

PLEASE DON'T SET BAIL FOR THESE NUTS! OR SOROUS WILL JUST PAY TO GET THEM OUT!!

[Ominousheat]

How close does that loudspeaker sound compared to Sci-Fi films?!!

[JohnnySS]

Kinda makes you appreciate when civilization used to thin the herd.

They never do this when it's -20°, that's odd.

Looks like they are beginning to beg for a civil war

[bruanhardrada]

How many of these protesters flew into NYC on private or commercial jet planes just for this event?

[bgee]

You have to be proud of this generation. They'll make it right as soon as all the baby boomers become extinct. BTW: that recording the police keep re-playing is creepy af.

[brilliantcheesecake]

these are deeply religious people being arrested for practicing their rituals.