SPOKANE, Wash. – Onlookers cheered from overpasses as a string of cars drove down Interstate 90 in Spokane on Wednesday, March 2nd, as part of a “Freedom Convoy,” which organizers say is headed to Washington D.C. to protest COVID-19 restrictions.
It’s one of several convoys with the same message that have been rolling across the U.S.
On Monday, we spoke with Stanwood business owner Tony Bonnallie who’s taking part in a separate Peoples’ Convoy.
He says it doesn’t matter that many of the COVID restrictions they’re protesting are being lifted.
“As long as that emergency use authorization is in place they can do whatever they want,” said Bonnallie. “It actually null and voids the constitution when we’re under that. So, that is really what we are going for.”
The convoys were inspired by a protest in Canada started by truckers upset at vaccine requirements to cross the Canadian border.