Drunk driver heading wrong way passes Kamala Harris’ motorcade on Milwaukee interstate
A suspected drunken driver drove toward Vice President Kamala Harris’ motorcade while going the wrong way on an interstate in downtown Milwaukee Monday night.
Just before 8:30 p.m., a 55-year-old Milwaukee man driving an SUV traveled westbound in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 at the Marquette Interchange, approaching the motorcade, according to James Burnett, spokesperson for the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office. As it drew closer to the motorcade, deputies stopped the SUV, Burnett said.
Deputies, who suspected the driver was impaired and saw an open container of alcohol in the car, conducted field sobriety tests and took other investigative measures, according to Burnett. They then took the driver into custody on recommended charges of operating while intoxicated and recklessly endangering safety.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation didn’t immediately respond to a request for video of the incident on Tuesday night. Video obtained by CNN affiliate WISN shows a vehicle moving slowly in a left-hand lane in the opposite direction while a collection of vehicles pass to the right.
No one was injured in the incident. The sheriff’s office deferred any questions about the motorcade to the United States Secret Service.
US Secret Service spokesperson Joe Biesk said the agency “is aware of the incident involving a motorist traveling in the opposite direction on the highway while the Vice President was in her motorcade.”
“We are grateful to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office for its response which allowed them to stop the motorist and take the driver into custody for DUI,” the statement said.
In the presidential race’s closing days, Harris was campaigning in Waukesha County Monday with former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. She also made campaign stops in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The incident comes as strain has been placed on the US Secret Service during a busy campaign season and what Acting Director Ronald Rowe has called an “unprecedented and hyper-dynamic threat environment.”
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 23, 2024 5:33 PM
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ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT! DEEP TRUMPIST STATE!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 23, 2024 2:55 PM
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This is not what we need to hear, just a few weeks before the election.
Having been on freeways and highways with Presidential motorcades before, I know for a fact that the Secret Service will usually shut down a highway or freeway for miles ahead, including all on-ramps and off-ramps, until the motorcade passes by.
So how is it that this drunken asshole was able to even come near the VP's motorcade.
Something is definitely wrong here.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 23, 2024 3:01 PM
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R2 Of course something is wrong. But, I doubt the SS is going to own up to anything.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 23, 2024 3:15 PM
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Told you we were hardcore!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 23, 2024 3:23 PM
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[quote]A suspected drunken driver drove toward Vice President Kamala Harris’ motorcade while going the wrong way
Perhaps it was Rudy Giuliani.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 23, 2024 3:36 PM
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The driver didn’t have his hands down his trousers, r6
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 23, 2024 4:55 PM
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I was leaving my friends' house in South Milwaukee Monday night, heading back to Madison. Normally I would take surface roads up to 794, which would take me downtown to 94W. That night, 794 was shut down. Every ramp entrance was blocked. I had to take surface roads to get to 94W. I saw the 10 or so police vehicles on the East bound 94. I didn't know Kamala was there until my friends texted me. I'm just glad I didn't have more trouble. Yesterday, Obama and Walz were in Madison, but that didn't affect me at all.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 23, 2024 5:19 PM
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There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Donald
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 23, 2024 5:21 PM
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The fact that they stopped him before he got near the motorcade shows that the system is working. There is always going to be a possibility of a threat. Even if you close all the ramps someone going in the opposite direction could find a place to cross the median to get on the other side of the road.
The real question is, was this a trial run to see how far he could get, knowing that if he got stopped, he would just be seen as a drunk driver.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 23, 2024 5:22 PM
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Wisconsin is right-wing, red MAGAT country.
The cops probably let this driver go through with no checks at all.
Are you drunk, sir? You want to smash into Kamala Harris' motorcade?
By all means, go right ahead. Oh, and MAGA!
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 23, 2024 5:26 PM
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I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you're an idiot r11. We have a Democratic governor and an openly lesbian Senator. Madison and Milwaukee are extremely liberal. Other cities, like Green Bay, are solidly purple.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 23, 2024 5:33 PM
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