NOM’s anti-trans hate bus tour across the northeast is continuing. Yesterday’s visit to New Haven, Connecticut concluded rather amusingly. From the New Haven Independent:
Police arrived at the scene, expecting to find protesters, according to Assistant Chief Otoniel Reyes, who oversees patrol. Instead, they saw only the bus. The driver asked the cops for an escort to the highway so it could head to its next stop in Philadelphia. Officers in two squad cars complied, leading the bus down Elm Street to State to Union Avenue, then over to the Sargent Drive I-95 entrance on Long Wharf.
Along the way, they noticed a big U-Haul truck behind the anti-LGBTQ bus. At first the cops figured the U-Haul was connected to the “Free Speech” bus. But the bus driver phoned the sergeant handling the escort, Wilfredo Cruz, to let him the U-Haul on its tail “is not with us,” Reyes said. In fact the U-Haul had a large tarp on its side with the message: “TRANSPHOBIA OUT OF CT.”
The Free Speech bus made it onto I-95, the U-Haul in hot pursuit. The cops phoned the state police to let them know the two-vehicle debate convoy was heading toward Fairfield County. And New Haven’s brush with the latest Divided America political drama came to an end.
This dude was not having it. See more pics of #FreeSpeechBus in New Haven: https://t.co/HNQexFOUH0 pic.twitter.com/GgfuQcx0TK
— Esteban L. Hernandez (@EstebanHRZ) March 31, 2017
Hit with some paint splatter on our way out of New Haven by some activists that trailed the bus. pic.twitter.com/7Mm0bY1kvX
— NOM (@NOMupdate) March 31, 2017
Harvard students damage, graffiti, throw meat at bus saying boys and girls are different | News | LifeSite https://t.co/eEv97EEE3q
— NOM (@NOMupdate) March 31, 2017
[Strong language] Video from @CitizenGO of the "tolerance" the #FreeSpeechBus met with in Boston yesterday. https://t.co/m3a1ULRgHQ
— NOM (@NOMupdate) March 31, 2017
The #FreeSpeechBus is in Philadelphia today!
— NOM (@NOMupdate) April 1, 2017
Go to City Hall at 11 a.m. today and tell the #FreeSpeechBus that #LoveIsLouder: https://t.co/7rIqM4oBDH via @phillymag #TransEqualityNow
— HRC Philly (@HRCGreaterPhila) April 1, 2017