Line 3 protesters who call themselves “water protectors” recently confronted Sen. Amy Klobuchar yet again.
The latest incident occurred Thursday in the middle of the senator’s speech at a Democratic fundraising event, a little more than a month after protesters cornered her in an elevator following a similar fundraiser.
On Twitter the left-wing environmentalists posted a truncated video of “indigenous youth questioning [Klobuchar’s] inaction on Line 3.” Despite attempts to take control of the floor, Klobuchar eventually gave up and walked off the stage after protesters began a “Stop Line 3” chant.
The group, Resist Line 3, characterized the move as “fleeing the stage” and celebrated their “humiliation” of the senator.
BREAKING: @SenAmyKlobuchar was just confronted at a fundraising event by a group of water protectors who SHUT DOWN her speech.
When faced with Indigenous youth questioning her inaction on Line 3, she rolled her eyes, tried to interrupt, and eventually fled the stage. #StopLine3 pic.twitter.com/FSKknoo7BQ
— Resist Line 3 (@ResistLine3) November 12, 2021
Resist Line 3 also bragged about their infiltration of the event, saying activists “flooded in through a service entrance.”
“As long as Amy Klobuchar is complicit in Line 3 destroying her own constituents and her own state, she deserves for her events to be shut down. Full stop,” they added.
New photo: Amy Klobuchar tried to spend the evening mingling with millionaires at a fundraiser.
Flooding in through a service entrance, Line 3 resistors shut it down. pic.twitter.com/cVBC8x5GTS
— Resist Line 3 (@ResistLine3) November 12, 2021
Anti-Line 3 leftists have been consistently targeting some of Minnesota’s top Democratic politicians over the past couple months. In mid-October they chased Sen. Tina Smith off stage at an academic event, and just a couple weeks prior they confronted her after she gave a speech on climate change.
In early September Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz quit a speech at a fundraiser just a few minutes after beginning because protesters heckled him over his refusal to block Line 3 construction.
The Minnesota DFL Party has ostensibly recognized the persistence of the “water protectors” as a serious problem. Their efforts are said to have played a role in the governor’s decision to hold a virtual reelection kickoff event in late October.
Evan Stambaugh
Evan Stambaugh is a freelance writer who had previously been a sports blogger. He has a BA in theology and an MA in philosophy.
