US truckers organize stateside convoys set to protest COVID-19 ‘overreach’By Jesse O’Neill
February 17, 2022
A group of US trucker convoys — inspired by the weeks-long demonstrations north of the border — are joining protests against COVID-19 restrictions and mandates in several cities.
The Great American Patriot Project started the American Truckers Freedom Fund on Wednesday and urged truck drivers to join three convoys to Washington DC next month.
The political action committee said it was launching the motorcades in the first month of March. One would travel from California through the Southwest and Deep South to DC. Two others would originate in Ohio and end in the capital.
“I don’t think that anybody wants to be told what to do,” Erica Knight, GAPP spokeswoman, told Fox News. “They don’t want to deal with these mandates and it’s kind of a way to stand up for all the American people against it.”
The initiative came as Canadian law enforcement was set to use emergency measures to disperse truck drivers from their occupation of central Ottawa, where they had paralyzed traffic in the capitol since late January. Their “Freedom Convoy” compatriots had abandoned the last trucker blockade at US borders on Wednesday.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/us-truckers-organize-stateside-convoys-set-to-protest-covid-19/
