Climate activists in Britain wasted no time in responding That of President-elect Trump re-election win Wednesday, spraying orange paint on part of the U.S. Embassy in London in protest.
Two members of the environmental group Just Stop Oil covered the embassy wall with orange paint, according to a video the group posted on social media. Video showed the orange spray paint covering nearby plants and dripping under the wall into the River Thames.
“Trump’s victory endangers the lives of ordinary people everywhere,” the group said in a news release.
Trump defeated Vice President Harris in a historic comeback victory and won a second term in the White House. Trump was expected to have crossed the 270-vote electoral threshold after stunning victories in the battleground states of North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
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British police arrested two men, aged 25 and 72, after the embassy wall in London was spray-painted with orange paint on Wednesday, November 6. (Jamie Lowe / Just Stop Oiling)
“I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected the 47th president,” Trump said during an early morning speech during a victory celebration in West Palm Beach, Florida. “And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future. Every day. I will fight for you. And with every breath in my body I will not rest until we create the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.”
The climate activist group said the stunt in London was done on Wednesday, November 6, to protest Trump’s re-election. (Jamie Lowe / Just Stop Oiling)
British police arrested the two men, aged 25 and 72, on suspicion of criminal damage after the embassy wall was covered in orange paint, authorities said.
The action group demands that governments work together to end the extraction and combustion of oil, gas and coal by 2030. (Jamie Lowe / Just Stop Oiling)
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“This activity is vandalism intended as a protest and we will continue to take a zero-tolerance stance towards these types of actions,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine said in a statement.
Just Stop Oil has demanded governments work together to end oil extraction and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030.
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The action group has been guilty of infamous protests throughout Great Britain, including spraying Stonehenge with orange powder, disrupting a performance of ‘Les Mis’ and pouring tomato soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting.