Protest at BROADWAY BARKS

Apparently someone posted on Twitter that a protest was occurring during the Broadway Barks event today.

https://twitter.com/paulhernandez97/status/1545891845368168448?s=21&t=yFJ6SLxmbyJ5lxczSgwpEw

Does anyone know what happened?

Ugh. I hate people.

I was there for awhile, didn’t see this. Must’ve happened after we left?

Here is a video of Bernadette dealing with them. Just so great.

https://twitter.com/reaganzog/status/1545900914619424768

Updated On: 7/9/22 at 07:58 PM

It was really strange. It was all about the Humane Society warehousing dogs. The protesters were scattered in the front third of the crowd. Things got loud with certain protesters and the people around them. There was lots of yelling and people filming each other. Signs were torn and it was messy. Bernadette asked Sutton, who was visibly upset, to sing a song to her dog, Mabel, who was on stage at the time. Sutton declined so they brought Kerry Butler and the Beetlejuice people to the stage. One guy with a bullhorn was escorted out past me. Other protesters tried to distribute information as they left. As I walked to the subway after the event, they were gathered outside of Ben & Jerry’s. Just a surreal moment.

Here is a pretty comprehensive video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRY4QxaR/?k=1

while i would NEVER condone anyone heckling Bernadette just on GP, let alone because of her decades-long advocacy on behalf of animals, reading that FB post it does seem like HSNY has some questions to answer. There well may be answers, but the questions seem legit.

I am sorry it happened. I hope it does not spoil future events.