California Senate goes into recess after anti-vaccine protester throws a red liquid from the gallery.
Protester blurted something about the blood of “babies.” Senators seem unnerved as they leave floor. @sfchronicle #SB276 pic.twitter.com/xZgNQbObqI
— Dustin Gardiner (@dustingardiner) September 14, 2019
After the incident, anti-vaccine protesters in the Senate balcony raised their fists in the air. @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/EoLJlmDLvR
— Dustin Gardiner (@dustingardiner) September 14, 2019
Yikes.
Anti-vaccine protesters on Friday hurled what authorities believed to be blood onto the Senate floor at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, leading to an evacuation of the building on the final day of the legislative calendar.
A video of the incident was posted on social media, which shows a woman telling California Highway Patrol officers, “My menstrual blood is all over the Senate floor.” The woman was subsequently detained, and posts from her Twitter account are connected to anti-vaccine demonstrations that occurred at the Capitol earlier that day.
“A few minutes ago, the anti-vaxxer stalkers – who’ve engaged in a harassment campaign all week – dropped a red substance onto the Senate floor from the elevated public gallery, dousing several of my colleagues,” state Sen. Scott Wiener tweeted. “The person who committed this assault screamed it was baby blood.”