Police are investigating two separate reports that drivers were attacked by members of a trucker convoy circulating Washington, D.C., for nearly three weeks.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating one incident that occurred on March 16 on the Francis Case Memorial Bridge and another on Sunday at Dupont Circle, according to case records obtained by the Washington Examiner. Police have not made any arrests or charges in either case as of Saturday morning.
The incident on the Francis Case Memorial Bridge involved a 33-year-old Virginia man who was riding into the district on his motorcycle when he got caught in the middle of the People’s Convoy that had been occupying Washington’s streets for weeks, according to the report. As he was wading through traffic, the motorcyclist, who identified himself to local news outlets as Logan and whose identity has been confirmed by the Washington Examiner, apparently “flipped off” several truckers.
The Daily Beast has obtained exclusive footage of the March 16th incident on the 14th St. bridge, where after a biker flipped off a truck driver with The People’s Convoy, the biker’s head was slammed into the ground — following truckers allegedly stealing his bike keys. pic.twitter.com/QchuIwCkKv
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Four members of the convoy assaulted the motorcyclist by holding him down and slamming his head to the ground, footage obtained by the Daily Beast purportedly shows. The cyclist was wearing a helmet at the time, but he told the outlet he “possibly has a concussion.”
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The second incident occurred days later when a woman identified as Kerry Bedard said a member of the convoy “struck her with his vehicle and drove on top of her right ankle,” according to a police report. Bedard, 73, had walked into the middle of the street to tell the truckers to stop honking while the traffic was at a standstill, the report said.
The driver told officers Bedard stood in front of his vehicle and then laid down in the roadway, though Bedard denies those reports.
The People’s Convoy arrived in Washington, D.C., on March 6 to protest COVID-19 mandates, which have been largely lifted nationwide, and other political grievances, inspired by a similar trucker convoy in Ottawa, Canada, earlier this year. Police have worked to avoid traffic disruption by implementing road blockages, eliciting the ire of many truckers.
