“Fuck you, Mayor Adams!”
These were the defiant words of conservative artist and activist Scott Robaid seconds before he was handcuffed and taken away in a police van for protesting New York City’s new pizza-making regulations.
Seconds earlier, Robaid threw several slices of pizza over a fence onto the grounds of New York City Hall to protest new environmental regulations that require the use of wood and coal stoves to reduce carbon emissions by 75%. .
The mandate requires affected pizzeria owners to install filters and hire engineers to regularly test their carbon emissions.
New York City cuts iconic pizza joint with new green rules
Conservative artist and activist Scott Robaid was taken into custody on Wednesday for throwing pizza slices on the grounds of New York’s City Hall to protest new emissions regulations. (John M. Mantel, FOX News Digital)
Robaid, a Staten Island resident and avid Donald Trump supporter, says the rule is just the latest example of government overreach and will impose unnecessary costs on struggling pie makers and bakeries. . He argues that New York City Mayor Adams should focus on more pressing issues, such as illegal immigration and immigrant crime, rather than targeting small business owners with strict rules.
“This is an invasion of illegal aliens who are beating, raping, killing and massacring police officers,” Robaid told a small group of supporters and a media scrum gathered outside the venue ahead of the demonstration.
“He’s worried about pizza because he hates small business owners. He hates you New Yorkers,” she added.
Robaid then compared the pizza-throwing act to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when settlers in Massachusetts dumped 342 crates of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor at Griffin Wharf. This movement was a demonstration against Britain, which imposed taxes on the colonists without representation in parliament.
“Those Bostonians loved their tea. They worshiped their tea. It was all they had, and they sacrificed it and threw it into the harbor,” Robaid said. yelled.
“And that’s what we’re doing here today. You have to make sacrifices to make history and make a fucking change. And that’s what we New Yorkers are here to do. And we are in the era of New Yorkers.”
New York City cuts iconic pizza joint with new green rules
Robaid and another man then took several pizzas from pie boxes stacked outside City Hall.
As they walked toward the fence with slices of pie in hand, a group of police officers followed them, and as they threw the pizza into City Hall, they were collared by an NYPD officer.
“Why is he getting arrested for littering? Littering is a fine,” another man was heard saying. “This mayor is corrupt…this is not an arrestable crime. You should be ashamed of yourself for following the mayor’s orders,” the man barks.
The two were then loaded into an NYPD minivan.
Before the protest, Robaid said he planned to feed the pigeons pizza. Although it is not illegal to feed pigeons, failure to clean up the unsanitary environment created by the act may result in a violation or citation.
Robaid yelled, “Damn you, Mayor Adams!” (John M. Mantel, FOX News Digital)
The NYPD told FOX News Digital that the two have not been arrested or charged.
Some city businesses have already spent more than $600,000 on new smoke systems in anticipation of the expected mandate. new york post I will report. According to the publication, about 130 Big Apple companies will be affected by the new rules.
Robaid had called on the city’s pizzeria owners and bakeries to join protests against the rules, but few seemed to support him.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) rule, which goes into effect April 27, applies to restaurants with cookstoves installed before May 2016. Supporters of the plan argue that carbon emissions from ovens contribute to global warming. Fox News Digital reached out to the mayor’s office for a statement, but did not immediately receive a response.
Robaid picks up a pizza slice during a protest. (John M. Mantel, FOX News Digital)
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This is not the first time Robaid has thrown a pie on the City Hall grounds, the painter also performed the same feat in June to protest new regulations.
“They handcuffed me because of some motherfucker who threw pizza and fed pigeons,” Robaid told FOX News Digital after being released from custody on Wednesday. “I did it last year, but I just got summoned. This year, the mayor had me handcuffed.”
“That’s ridiculous. So what is New York famous for? Pizza and bagels. It’s just crazy. Bull***.”
