Convoy protesting COVID-19 mandates does beltway circuit
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A supporter rides a motorbike close to the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
Supporters pressure close to the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
Supporters stand at the street close to the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
Supporters pressure by way of the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
A crowd of supporters fill the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
A crowd of supporters fill the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
Massive numbers of other people coated the bridges and roadways in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
A crowd of supporters fill the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
A crowd of supporters fill the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
A crowd of supporters fill the New Design Street bridge over I-270 in Frederick County because the “Other folks’s Convoy” handed in the course of the county as they made their method from Hagerstown to Washington, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A big team of truck drivers who object to COVID-19 mandates drove two loops across the beltway surrounding Washington, Sunday, intentionally shifting slowly to affect visitors and make their emotions recognized to lawmakers within the country’s capitol.
Other folks crowded onto overpasses, waving on the “Other folks’s Convoy” and maintaining indicators and American flags. Throughout the convoy, there have been tractor-trailers with horns blaring and a few leisure automobiles and pickup vehicles now and again going by way of, combined with the traditional visitors on Interstate 495 in Silver Springs, Maryland.
The convoy was once shifting in most cases — albeit slowly — and whilst some congestion was once famous, information shops reported visitors was once in a position to waft across the convoy. Many automobiles had American flags, whilst some flew Don’t Tread on Me banners.
“We’re now not even certain we will be able to name it a convoy any further as it’s so dispersed amongst regimen visitors at this level,” Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller instructed The Washington Submit.
Protesters staged on the Hagerstown Speedway in Maryland throughout the weekend earlier than heading down a unmarried lane of Interstate 81. Their plan was once to pressure onto the Capital Beltway, circle it two times after which go back to Hagerstown.
The convoy follows equivalent demonstrations by way of truckers in Canada who’re disenchanted at vaccine necessities to move the Canadian border. The Washington Submit additionally reported that convoy organizer Brian Brase intends for protesters to go back and forth at the beltway on a daily basis throughout the impending week till their calls for are met.
