As police including Maryland State Troopers arrived, the apparent parolee agitated at the activists blocking traffic got more physical. A climate change protest backfired on Monday after a video clip of a parolee pleading with activists blocking the Beltway to let him pass so he could get to work went viral. “One lane, I am asking one lane,” said the man who got out of his car to confront the activists sitting across the I-495 in Montgomery County, Maryland blocking traffic.
Fox 4 DC reported on Wednesday that 13 protesters were eventually arrested on various charges including “resisting arrest, disturbing peace/hinder passage, and failure to obey a reasonable/lawful order.”