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Watch: UCLA doctor is escorted out of medical center after speaking at anti-vax rally

2021-10-05 00:00:00

Last month, UCLA's Dr. Christopher Lake, an unvaccinated anesthesiologist, spoke at an anti-vax rally, telling the Kool-Aid-drunk crowd, "They want to force a vaccination or medication or treatment into my body that I don't want. So they're telling me, 'Take the jab or we take your job.' And I'm here to say no." The anti-vaxxers ate it up, hooting with excitement. (See @andrewkimmel's tweet below.)

For dramatic effect, as an aircraft flew over the rally, he held his hand up to the sky and shouts, "Wave for freedom! FREEDOM!"

Cut to yesterday's tweet by @InMinivanHell (below) showing a deflated Dr. Lake play-acting the martyr as he is being escorted out of UCLA "for standing up for freedom." He valiantly says, "This is what happens when you stand up for freedom, when you show up to work, willing to work, despite being unvaccinated [as a doctor!] … I'm willing to lose everything."

The comic relief comes when he tries to speak to one of his masked escorts, asking for the man's title, and the escort says, "Don't come near me."

Dr. Christopher Rake, UCLA anesthesiologist who previously attended an anti-vaxx rally in his white coat, was escorted out of a UCLA Medical Center today.



"This is what happens when you stand up for freedom, when you show up to work, willing to work, despite being unvaccinated." pic.twitter.com/5LW7MAVSst — InMinivanHell (@inminivanhell) October 5, 2021

Dr. Christopher Rake, an anesthesiologist from UCLA medical center, tells the crowd, "They want to force a vaccination or medication or treatment into my body that I don't want. So they're telling me, 'Take the jab or we take your job.' And I'm here to say no. That's not ok." pic.twitter.com/wP2kZyS1o7 — Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) August 30, 2021

From UCLA's Daily Bruin, which doesn't mention Lake's chaperoned walk today, so I assume it was written beforehand:
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