Cowboy Express Startles D.C. Commuters
By • October 22, 2014 0 879
At the height of rush hour at Key Bridge and M Street, protestors on horseback from out West entered the nation’s capital Oct. 16 with a set of grievances against the Bureau of Land Management.
Their right to assembly and protest was assisted by the Metropolitan Police Department and other federal police agencies with Homeland Security as cop cars and motorcycles blocked intersections for the group of 20 riders, a wagon and their horse trailers. The spectacle briefly stopped traffic and turned heads. Commuters were first surprised but then smiled and waved at the ranchers.
Riding horseback from coast to coast, demonstrators from the Grass March and Cowboy Express made their way to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness for ranchers’ grazing rights. The group left Bodega Bay, Calif., on Sept. 26, riding more than 2,800 miles by horseback to deliver petitions to Capitol Hill.
