What happened to the "Freedom Convoy"?

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4. Trucker convoy arrives in Sacramento for COVID protests at California Capitol grounds

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Has anyone heard from the "Freedom Convoy" lately? Did they get lost in the desert and go all Mad Max on each other?

1) Yes. 2) No.

They heard, "Californey is the place you oughta be." So they loaded up their trucks and they moved to ... Sacramento.

Trucker convoy arrives in Sacramento for COVID protests at California Capitol grounds

BY MICHAEL MCGOUGH UPDATED APRIL 18, 2022 1:35 PM



A truck driver signs an American flag at the beginning of a trucker caravan to Washington, D.C., called The People’s Convoy on Feb. 23, 2022, in Adelanto, Calif. A small convoy of truckers demanding an end to coronavirus mandates arrived April 18 in Sacramento for three days of permitted events at the California state Capitol. NATHAN HOWARD AP

A group referred to as the “People’s Convoy” arrived in Sacramento on Monday morning, circling downtown streets and blaring horns in trucks and other vehicles. ... It’s the first of an apparent three-day stint of events planned at California’s state Capitol in protest of coronavirus restrictions.

The first event, with a permit granted to the “Unified Americans Convoy of California” from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday on the north side of the Capitol, is permitted for 200 attendees, California Highway Patrol permit records show. ... The second permit, given to “The Peoples Convoy California” for a demonstration on the west side of the Capitol, is scheduled from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. for 300 attendees.

Videos on social media and livestreams from attendees, though, showed that members of the convoy had spilled over from the north side and began to crash an unrelated, permitted event scheduled for the west side at 11 a.m. The event by the Prosecutors Alliance of California intended to give resources to crime survivors, according to its permit.

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