'The President is lying, people are dying': corpses were laid out near the Trump Hotel in Washington

Participants in an organized demonstration laid out black corpse bags near the entrance to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, protesting the reaction of the US president to the coronavirus pandemic, writes The Washington Post.

Photo: video frame YouTube / Reuters

Everything happened last Thursday, April 23. Surrounding the White House, shouting slogans and curses from the windows of cars, the protesters went to the Trump Hotel to unpack the bags in front of the entrance.

More than 20 black packages of human height, stuffed with cardboard and newspapers, were supposed to look like the bodies of coronavirus pandemic victims, aligned on the sidewalk along Pennsylvania Avenue under a gilded sign with the president’s name.

This was the last social protest in the district, where activists, accustomed to the regular waves of demonstrations, were forced to re-express dissent under orders to stay at home and taking into account the death toll from the coronavirus.

The demonstration, organized in part by the liberal Center for Popular Democracy, began with cars flashing around the White House. According to one of the organizers, it was like a funeral procession.

They called the movement "the people's motorcade": sedans and SUVs drove through the city center with signs affixed to windows and bumpers that read: "Trump lies, people are dying" and "Trump is a virus." Others demanded more personal protective equipment, such as masks and face shields, for essential workers.

“One of the saddest things about this epidemic is that we are dying alone, and we are not able to honor someone's life in the way we are used to,” said Jennifer Flynn Walker, senior director of mobilization and advocacy at the Center for Popular Democracy. “We realized that we were not going to organize just a car protest. "We're angry at Trump, but mostly we're trying to save the lives of our neighbors and our friends."

An inflatable chicken with blond hair, created in the image of the president, was seen on one of the procession’s cars.

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Photo: video frame YouTube / Reuters

After driving around the White House, the cars headed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Trump Hotel, where several protesters stopped and pulled makeshift “body” bags from their cars. They laid out the bags on the sidewalk near the hotel.

Unlike typical rallies where speakers speak to the crowd through megaphones or from the stands, activists listened to each other and told their own stories using the Zoom call, which allowed them to stay in touch while staying in their cars.

Several demonstrators brought their children and families.

Kristin Mink, a high school teacher and long-time activist, best known for her confrontation with former Environment Agency director Scott Pruitt, told her 4-year-old daughter that they are participating in the parade.

“We've been home for almost a month now and it can feel very lonely. It is very difficult to make our voices heard so that they become tangible and physically fill the streets. So that you feel safe,” Mink said. “But the fact that I live in D.C. allows me to make a statement to the government.” So that people come first."

Trump's lies, PPE blockades & ventilator hoarding is killing people by the thousands.

So the People's Motorcade, over a hundred cars, just surrounded Trump Hotel with body bags.#TrumpCovidFails#TrumpChaos#GetUsPPE pic.twitter.com/sbsdSDc56A

- Kristin Mink #MasksForAmerica #ProtectNurses (@KristinMinkDC) April 23, 2020

Although the number of bystanders was limited, Flynn Walker said the group encountered one person who yelled at them. Most others, walking in the rain or driving in their cars, made gestures of approval, she said. Masked pedestrians raised their fists, drivers honked their horns.

“When the president lies, people literally die, especially with his latest advice being to drink disinfectant or inject him or whatever,” Flynn Walker said. — Along with the HIV/AIDS epidemic, I learned that the virus can really be political. Not fighting back means letting people die. That's the message we wanted to send."

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• During a briefing at the White House on coronavirus, which discussed the results of a new study on the benefits of sunlight and humidity to reduce the threat of COVID-19, US President Donald Trump proposed to introduce disinfectants patients infected with coronavirus. “It would be interesting to check this,” the president noted.

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