'Fox & Friends' host Steve Doocy and Jimmy Failla laud Nevada ranger who pointed gun at climate protesters
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: 'Fox & Friends' host Steve Doocy and radio host Jimmy Failla shared a laugh over climate change protesters being put at gunpoint by Nevada Rangers.
As the Burning Man Festival has already commenced, the major route to Nevada is under use by thousands who have been traveling for the event.
However, the traffic came to a sudden pause when climate change activists blocked the road, causing a traffic jam that added up to miles and miles of vehicles.
They were finally removed by the Nevada rangers, one of them plowing through their protest signs and pulling out the gun on them.
Protester screams 'we are non-violent'
Host Steve Doocy brought out the video of the Nevada Rangers putting an end to the protests that caused the chaos on the highway to Burning Man.
The video showed a ranger's truck plowing through the sign boards with the slogans of the protesters. He also broke through the chains that the protesters had tied around themselves and a trailer.
The ranger then proceeded to demand that all protesters get down on the ground, also aiming his gun as he made an unarmed woman forcefully kneel on the ground.
One of the activists in the background kept screaming that they were "non-violent" protesters and that they had "no weapons at all." She cried out they were only "environmental protesters" as the rangers proceeded to arrest all of them.
Jimmy Failla calls the cops 'heroes'
Doocy and Failla, who had joined him from their radio counterpart at Fox, discussed how the protesters had gotten what they deserved.
"How do you not watch this and just rejoice?" Failla said. "Because, we're so long overdue for some pushback on this garbage where people are inconvenienced whether it's at a museum or people are chaining themselves to the runway."
The protesters were from the activist group Seven Circles, who were drawing attention to the issues of climate change and capitalism, especially in relation to the Burning Man festival, according to the New York Post.
Doocy also noted the rangers were "not regular cops" but "tribal rangers" who had different rules.
Failla said the traffic jam could have proven dangerous for people who were stuck in the traffic and that the ranger was right to treat them like this.
"They actually just protected the rights of everybody on that road who had somewhere to be," he continued. "I mean listen, on a serious note. If you have a medical procedure to get to -- Yes, no, seriously! You have no right to do that to people. You don't know what's going on in that traffic jam you are causing. So good for them."