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SEE IT: People’s Convoy files lawsuit against D.C. for blocking access to city

Heather Hamilton - May 3

Members of the People’s Convoy, a group primarily comprising truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates, filed a lawsuit Monday claiming the Washington, D.C., government violated their First Amendment rights.

Sixteen members of the trucking convoy claimed that D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department set up blockades preventing their access to the city.

"MPD formed the blockades for the sole purpose of preventing American citizens from entering our nation’s capital to exercise their constitutionally protected right to free speech,” the lawsuit states. “Of course, such action under color of state law violates Plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights.”

The lawsuit claims that the convoy was turned away from entering D.C. four separate times.

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But even worse, MPD;s actions directly and proximately killed two people as their motor vehicle crashed into the blockades. The two victims were trapped inside their vehicle and spent their last moments on fire, burning to death. Indeed, their deaths were entirely avoidable and tragically, foreseeable.

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"When we left, you guys laughed at us, you made fun of us,” a trucker convoy leader said in a speech about D.C.

So, he says, they're coming back.

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"When we left, you guys laughed at us," says a prominent People's Convoy member. So they're coming back.