https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...ton-dc-beltway
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I support their right to protest but NOT to tie up traffic.
Somebody tell them to wake up and smell the coffee. Covid restrictions are being lifted. Little to nothing left to protest. Save on fuel and Go Home !
I'm really confused about the blockade so maybe someone can enlighten me. My mom went to one of the gatherings where they cheer the blockade on as it moved through the area heading to D.C. and when I asked her what the truckers were protesting she said vaccine and mask mandates. Obviously mask mandates are currently on the outs all over the US and as far as I could find there is no vaccine mandate for truckers. Apparently OSHA tried to get some law passed that would have made vaccines mandatory for employees employed at companies with over 100 employees, which would have affected truckers, but the Supreme Court rejected it. I told her this and she said it didn't matter because states are still denying private truckers from entering them(I guess?) and when I asked her for specifics and she couldn't give me any. She is also really bad at giving me accurate information and not even properly reading her sources so does anyone know what she is talking about or what she might be thinking she's talking about?
Is it still going on?
This is my favorite trucker protest video:
https://twitter.com/ShutDown_DC/stat...12396839206912
Lol. DC means, don't come
Zachary Petrizzo has been covering the protests.
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/statu...24396415361024
According to co-organizer and trucker Ron Coleman, The People's Convoy has a new goal: conduct "citizen's arrests" of Metro PD officers and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. "We have to put a summons out to the Metro PD and Mayor Bowser...we would do citizen's arrests [of] them."
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/statu...26179208474632
Coleman claims convoy lawyers are looking into it. As to the arrest reasoning: truckers speaking with Coleman say that other truckers haven't been able to "go to the bathroom" while circling the Beltway, which has left "people hav[ing] actually pissed their pants!"
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/statu...30955040108562
Over the past week, there has been a growing fascination with the prospects of arresting DC residents. Some truckers have also suggested that they could arrest a Beltway driver if they successfully pin in the driver, take them out of their car, and then conduct an arrest.
They actually tried this.
https://twitter.com/Imposter_Edits/s...53519925862407
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/statu...11529015554051
Today out in Hagerstown, more and more truckers with The People's Convoy have complained about becoming sick with a bad cough. One streamer, “OTR Survival,” ended up going to an urgent care, and described the illness as getting “hit by a bus.”
This sums it up for me! :)