“The People’s Convoy” is rolling out of Oklahoma on Sunday morning as part of a protest against COVID-19 mandates.
Cars lined the sides of highways, people stood on overpasses and along streets, waving flags, and truckers honked their horns as the convoy crossed the Texas border and arrived in Elk City, Oklahoma, late Saturday.
“I think we’re all trucking across America with most of the country at this point,” one of the truckers, Jack Burton, said during a Facebook live video on the group’s webpage.
The convoy has continued to grow since it left California on Feb. 23. Video of the convoy leaving Arizona shows the line of trucks protesting.
US convoy for freedom rolling towards DC via Arizona. pic.twitter.com/6twhOEAFeL
— Adalia Brand (@BrandAdalia) February 25, 2022
One of the group’s supporters tweeted that the convoy included at least 2,000 trucks and vehicles by Friday.
The US convoy for freedom from California to Washington DC now 2k trucks and civilian vehicles long today. pic.twitter.com/BEx0Mm8Z2d
— Adalia Brand (@BrandAdalia) February 25, 2022
The group is also protesting the “national state of emergency.”
“We, the people, want our country back — the one that we love, Ole Glory, the America, the beautiful and the brave,” organizer Mike Landis said. “Because that’s who we are, and what we are, and what we want to continue to be. We do not want to be under a dictatorship, communism-style regime.”
The convoy is scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C., on or around March 5.
Other convoys with similar goals are popping up across the country. One group was seen in Alabama, honking horns and drawing crowds of waving fans in support.
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“The whole purpose is for us to tell the government that we’re ready for things to go back to the way they were before this pandemic,” organizer Richard Schmittou told WSFA.
Schmittou’s group plans to be in Washington, D.C., shortly after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Another video posted to the “The People’s Convoy” Facebook page showed a convoy forming in Maui.
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The Pentagon recently said it was sending 700 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to manage traffic flow during the truckers’ series of protests, similar to the Ottawa “Freedom Convoy.”
