Mar 18, 2022 - Trucks Drive Around The National Mall and Rocks Thrown At Convoy
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The Freedom Convoy
The convoy once again split into multiple different groups and had several trucks make it into the area near the National Mall. I am not sure what route they have been taking to get in, but there are many roads into DC that aren’t interstates.
WYSIWYG TV was with the truckers who were in the city. https://fb.watch/bR2hr4zFrZ/ You can see footage of the truckers in the area around the mall at the 6 hr mark. They continued to loop around DC and took several laps specifically around the mall area. There were a couple of incidents with people opposing the convoy. The
The MPDC continued to block the exits from the interstate into the city.
Mike Landis, a co-organizer, stated at the nightly meeting that the police let cars into the 14th St. exit, but when he attempted to move into the exit they blocked it off.
WTOP News wrote a more detailed article on the impact and movement of the convoy on Friday. https://wtop.com/local/2022/03/truck-convoy-creates-more-delays-for-dc-area-drivers/
On the route back to Hagerstown, three individual threw rocks at the convoy damaging one radiator and hitting other vehicles. You can see that moment on the below live stream.
The People’s Convoy released the following press release on March 17 summarizing the meetings that they have held with politicians and clarifying the increased traffic in the DC area.
PRESS RELEASE – March 17, 2022
DC METRO POLICE DISRUPT TRAFFIC FLOW BY BLOCKING OFFRAMPS AND ENTRY-POINTS INTO THE U.S. CAPITAL, BLAMES THE PEOPLE’S CONVOY
Despite continued coordination with law enforcement, The People’s Convoy has been denied entrance to DC and has been threatened to be arrested
Washington, DC (March 17, 2022) – The People’s Convoy continues to meet with lawmakers as they stage outside of DC, working to restore our country’s freedoms and liberties while demanding government accountability. Most recently, organizers met with Congressman Jim Jordan and Josh Hawley in DC on Monday. Since arriving in Maryland on March 3, The People’s Convoy has been working daily with law enforcement agencies to ensure a safe and peaceful convoy around the DC beltway. During these daily, in-person meetings our leadership discloses the routes that the convoy intends to take the following day.
Despite the convoy’s active, transparent and daily communication with special agents from both the Metropolitan DC Police Department and the Maryland State Police Department, the DC Metro Police have blocked all entrances into the US Capital for the past two days. This blocking of offramps with plow vehicles and barricades has caused traffic delays and frustration for all drivers. Further, it is a deliberate abuse of power, as law enforcement strips hard working, tax paying citizens of their constitutional right to peacefully travel on tax payer-funded streets in our nation’s capital in the exercise of our first amendment right to petition an abusive government.
“Every American has a constitutional right to peacefully protest and visit our nation’s capital,” said Brian Brase, co-organizer of The People’s Convoy. “We have circled the beltway for the past two weeks in a law-abiding demonstration of solidarity with the American people without incident. Threatening arrest and blocking access to DC is not going to stop us from making our voices heard. If we can’t come to them, this is an open invitation to any lawmaker, any government official in the White House or on Capitol Hill to join us here in Hagerstown and hear the demands of the people you work for.”
Calling out the hypocrisy of millions of people illegally entering our southern border, while law enforcement denies freedom-loving America’s access to DC, Tucker Carlson talked about the People’s Convoy in his opening commentary on the March 15 edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“Meanwhile, in our country, a convoy of American citizens dared to peacefully protest their own government as they assume the constitution guaranteed them the right to do and yet they have been blocked unconstitutionally from entering their own capital city.
It’s not just truckers who are banned from entering Washington, D.C., it’s everyone. D.C. police somehow were allowed to block off many exits yesterday to drivers for more than two hours. This is the same city that rewarded violent Black Lives Matter protesters with a mural.
So maybe you’re for that, maybe you’re not, but in normal times, that would be a big story because our constitutional rights are wrapped up in it and we should be debating what the limits of those rights are, how much power our politicians have, how much power we want them to have, but we’re not…” [excerpt from Tucker Carlson’s opening commentary, March 15]
The People’s Convoy truckers will not be circling the beltway on Thursday, March 17 due to weather concerns, but plans to continue the regular published routes as more truckers and other freedom-loving Americans join the convoy. Organizers will continue to meet with lawmakers and stay in the DC area until meaningful change and government accountability has been met.
To date, the People’s Convoy has met with the following elected officials:
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
U.S. Representative Sam Graves (R-Mo.)
U.S. Representative Garret Graves (R-LA)
U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-IL)
U.S. Representative Eric “Rick” Crawford (R-AR)
U.S. Representative Bob Gibbs (R-OH)
U.S. Representative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)
PA State Senator Doug Mastriano
Mayor of City of Adelanto, CA Gabriel Reyes
Mayor of Monrovia, IN Tom Adams
Mayor of City of Tucumcari, NM Ruth Ann Litchfield
The Navajo Nation’s Vice President and Congressional Candidate Myron Lizor
Multiple State Attorneys General
Upcoming Meetings:
U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger, (R-TN) will meet in Hagerstown 9:00am speedway, Friday March 18
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For updates, news and to donate to The People’s Convoy, visit the official website www.ThePeoplesConvoy.org
Freedom Convoy (Canada)
There was a meetup of Canadian truckers and other supporters in Vaughan, Ontario. BJ Dichter retweeted the below video with the caption “2.0 Coming Soon.”
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