
Trucker convoy laps Washington, DC, beltway to protest Covid-19 measures
CNN
A convoy of vehicles lapped the Washington, DC, beltway Sunday morning to demand an end to Covid-19 mandates and restrictions.
The protests come at a time when many pandemic-related mandates and restrictions -- imposed by state and local governments rather than lawmakers in Washington -- have already begun being lifted in much of the country.
The group -- which included dozens of vehicles, including some eighteen-wheelers, according to footage from CNN affiliate WUSA -- planned to drive at least two loops around the beltway before returning to Hagerstown, Maryland, Maureen Steele, an organizer with the "People's Convoy" told CNN. They did not plan to enter the city proper.

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