WASHINGTON — The Metropolitan Police Department will deploy its civil disturbance units from Feb. 23 to March 1, responding in part to possible trucker convoys like the one that blockaded a major U.S.-Canada border crossing.
Homeland Security officials have not dismissed the possibility of a convoy coming to Washington, even though one failed to materialize at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles.
Anti-vaccine and anti-mandate protests in Canada have been happening for nearly three weeks now. Ottawa Police have made at least three arrests Thursday evening.
D.C. police officers received a notice Wednesday about the deployment schedule, according to two MPD officials familiar with the plan.
The deployment will last through the lead-up to President Biden's State of the Union Address on March 1.
The Department of Homeland Security was monitoring potential plans for a trucker protest during Super Bowl weekend.