After Los Angeles enforced an indoor coronavirus mandate on November 08, 2021, hundreds came around City Hall and demonstrated against the ordinance and other orders. The group Firefighters for Freedom was one of the organizers of the protest, where first responders of the LAPD, LAFD members, and the LAC Sheriff’s Department were present too.
First responders in LA have refused to accept the vaccine ordinances lately and looked for exemptions, retirement options, and transfers to non-LA departments. In the recent lawsuit from Firefighters for Freedom against Los Angeles, it stated that the effort of the city to force thousands of its employees to get unwanted medical treatment violated the law. Some of those employees are firefighters in the US.
The demonstration was against not only the vaccine ordinance and mask orders but also county/city mandates that require risk termination or COVID-19 vaccination proof for municipal workers.
With protest signs and American flags around them, the mostly mask-free crowd described the vaccination and mask ordinances as “tyranny.” Further, a group of US firefighters held a placard that read, “Firemen deserve medical choice not unemployment.”
Los Angeles city’s workers have until December 18, 2021, to prove that they are fully vaccinated against coronavirus disease after an extended deadline.
The vaccine ordinance that became effective on November 07, 2021, requires indoor businesses in Los Angeles to demand proof of coronavirus vaccination for admission. Some of those indoor business locations are restaurants, bars, gymnasiums.