Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Outrage as Joe Manchin pushed a climate activist to the floor at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Footage captured the intense moment when an aide for Sen. Joe Manchin threw a climate protester to the ground following a tense interaction.
The heated exchange happened at an event at Harvard University on Friday, and saw the West Virginia lawmaker stand up to confront the much-younger activist.
After holding Manchin back, Communications Director Jonathan Kott can be seen grabbing and throwing the instigator out the door, sending him to the ground.
The protestor, later identified as a member of the new, youth-led group Climate Defiance, was joined by several others who took issue with how the 76-year-old Democrat facilitated the ongoing construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
The natural gas pipeline, which has been in the works since 2014, is expected to run through Manchin’s home state of West Virginia and into southern Virginia, cutting through the Appalachian Trail. The activist, in turn, called the senator a ‘sick f**k.’
Climate Defiance activists similarly disrupted speeches by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell late last year.
As for the group’s tactics, 30-year-old executive director Michael Greenberg told Rolling Stone: “We’re not just trying to have moving, heartfelt conversations with people in power. What we really want to do is shake society awake.”
Manchin, who said last year that he’s not running for re-election, had flirted with a third-party presidential run until announcing in February that he would not launch a White House campaign.
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