Protestors clash with riot police as thousands descend on San Francisco to ‘shut down’ APEC summit as motorcade of 10 vehicles gets stuck in front of barricade
- The protesters tried to prevent people from attending the summit
- They protest against the war in Gaza and the oil industry
Hundreds of anti-APEC protesters clashed with riot police on Wednesday morning as thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to ‘shut down’ the summit.
A motorcade of about ten vehicles was stuck in front of the barricade as police in riot gear tried to control the crowd of protesters against the oil industry and the war in Gaza.
The protesters, wearing yellow vests, tried to prevent people from attending the summit and shouted at summit participants who entered the security zone.
“We will not allow genocide to be normalized,” one organizer told the newspaper the San Francisco standard.
The protesters chanted, “Biden, Biden tells lies, you don’t care if the planer dies,” and “shut down APEC.”
Protesters clashed with riot police as thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco on Wednesday morning to ‘shut down’ the APEC summit.
The demonstrators chanted: ‘Biden, Biden tells lies, you don’t care if the planer dies’
Officials in San Francisco conducted a major cleanup in the run-up to the event so that the world’s dignitaries would no longer have to interact with the homeless during the APEC trade summit.
The unprecedented measures were aimed at presenting a clean and shiny picture at the summit, the city’s largest gathering of world leaders since 1945, and preventing the kind of street spectacle that has damaged the city’s reputation.
The conference started Saturday and runs until November 17.