WND reported months ago when the People’s Convoy truckers staged at a speedway in Maryland and then drove the D.C. Beltway to champion freedom and protest the Biden administration’s COVID-related mandates.
They’re back.
But the operation this time wasn’t as big, and one driver got arrested.
A report posted on MSN said a convoy over the Fourth of July holiday was assembled by the 1776 Restoration Movement.
And leader David Riddell was arrested near the National Mall, where his group was setting up camp alongside a row of trucks, according to Metropolitan police.
The report said, “Riddell, also known as ‘Santa’ and formerly of the trucker group The People’s Convoy, was arrested on Montgomery County, Md., traffic warrants for blocking I-270, willfully driving at a slow speed and disobeying a police order on July 4, D.C. police said.”
It was in addition to several other trucker convoys that appeared at the nation’s Capital over the holiday.
“One group of truckers blocked I-270 just before I-370. Another group blocked southbound I-95 just south of route 198. On those days, no arrests were made,” the report said.
The 1776 Restoration Movement convoy later released a statement, explaining it took its message to the highways over the holiday.
“This great and beautiful Nation belongs to ALL of us. We must exercise our God-given and Constitutionally-granted Rights to address the Grievances of We the People,” said 1776 Restoration Movement Liaison Victoria LaRocca.
The Washington Times reported the arrest of Riddell, 57, happened while his group was demonstrating on the National Mall.
He faces fines of up to $430 apiece on various charges.
In the original convoy, WND reported, Kris Young, who was livestreaming the event on Facebook from her truck on the Beltway as her husband drove, said, “People are tired, they are fed up” at their freedoms being chipped away.
“Our kids and our grandkids are not going to be living in the same country that many of us grew up in.”
She called that event “very fluid,” as the truckers decided against clogging the streets of Washington, D.C.
“We can’t just go in there like a bull in a china shop and lock down D.C. and be infiltrated,” she said. “There is no long-term plans made. We never knew how big it was going to grow from one day to the next…”
The truckers actually began their convoy in California, making stops at various locations across the country and adding more drivers to their ranks.
They then staged at the Hagerstown Speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland, before making at least two loops around the D.C. Beltway.
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