More fail for people who like wasting fuel. Because cancelling BLM Plaza by masking it with paint (since tarring and feathering is less violent than lynching) means something, something COVID mask mandates?
On Friday morning, the so-called “People’s Convoy” seemed to reveal a new goal for the right-wing trucker movement: Reclaim the two-block-long Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C. “What’s going to happen up here in D.C.: Black Lives Matter Street, we’re gonna take it back,” a speaker declared during the group’s daily morning meeting after being tossed the microphone by organizer Mike Landis. “All that paint’s coming off that street,” he continued. The group further pledged to enlist the help of motorcycle riders in the storming of the city, with a goal to “tar and feather” the pedestrian-only section of 16th Street NW painted in honor of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. “And then we are gonna tar and feather all our delegates,” the speaker concluded.
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US Parks Police has a helicopter flying at a low altitude, circling above this small contingent of the
#PeoplesConvoy driving around the National Mall.
Convoy took a quick pause at 14th and Constitution waiting for some of their crew to catch up. As I tweet this, they’re rolling again.
One participant me (off camera) that blockages have made it hard to stick together, and there’s no specific planned path.
Truckers pause, police intervene and tell them to get back into vehicles and keep driving as counter-protesters tells them to “fuck off, losers” at Constitution and Madison.
So one truck got left behind on Madison and Constitution following the earlier argument.
Because the driver got out of the vehicle, the Lieutenant on scene basically said they were treating it as a briefly “abandoned” vehicle, subjecting it to a full roadside inspection.
That truck was allowed to keep driving and is again looping, now flanked by an escort of two MPD vehicles with flashing lights.
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