Anti-Maskers March Through Shop Chanting Take Off Your Mask!

Video showing a group of mask-less demonstrators parading through a Target store in Florida and hollering at customers take off their masks has gone viral on social media.

The video, apparently taken by someone shopping in the store, popped up on Reddit, and later on Twitter. It shows some protesters wearing red MAGA shirts or hats and bellowing, Take it off.

Anti-maskers in Florida invade a Target pic.twitter.com/Z8TWbl8ihD

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Anti-maskers in Florida invade a Target pic.twitter.com/Z8TWbl8ihD
Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 16, 2020

One participant was Cristina Gomez, who shared a livestream of the protest as she marched through the Target in Ft. Lauderdale on Tuesday.

In the livestream, Gomez and others in the group can be heard shouting, Take your mask off! and cheering on customers to join them. They blasted the song Were Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister.

If an infant doesnt wear a mask, then no one should wear a mask, says Gomez in her livestream, before adding: People looking at us like, Whats going on? Isnt it crazy how people now look at me like we crazy because we dont have a mask on? I think yall crazy for having a mask.

Neither Gomez nor Target immediately answered HuffPosts requests for comment.

Another protester, Nathan Babcock, told HuffPost that he thought it was successful and plans to join similar events in the future.

Its your right to do what you want, like its my right to do what I want, Babcock said. If you want to wear a mask and think [it] makes you safer ...thats absolutely youre right, 100%. Just dont force me to wear a mask ... because its my right not to wear one.

Babcock said he joined a protest at the store because all our city halls are closed and he wanted to express himself: We have no voice in what is being done to us. Thats why we have had to organise and protest the lockdown, he said.

Before the protest, Gomez had promoted it with a graphic on her Facebook page, calling it an anti mask flash mob.