Traffic on the Beltway encircling the nation’s capital was much busier than usual Sunday, as The People’s Convoy of truckers showed up in force to champion freedom and protest COVID-related mandates.
“People are tired, they are fed up” at their freedoms being chipped away, said Kris Young, who was livestreaming the event on Facebook from her truck on the Beltway as her husband drove.
“Our kids and our grandkids are not going to be living in the same country that many of us grew up in.”
She called the event “very fluid,” as the truckers decided against clogging the streets of Washington, D.C.
“We can’t just go in there like a bull in a china shop and lock down D.C. and be infiltrated,” she said. “There is no long-term plans made. We never knew how big it was going to grow from one day to the next and we still don’t know that.”
Young was answering questions live from viewers in her comment stream, saying, “Not only do we not know how big it’s going to grow, we also don’t the know the response we’re going to get from D.C. I’m sure at some point they’re going to want to (continued)
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