HAMILTON MTN News has continuing coverage on the \"Freedom Convoys\" that have been protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Canada and the US.<\/p>\n
We have been covering the story from near the border and on Sunday the rallies came through the Missoula and Bitterroot valleys.<\/p>\n
There were about 50 vehicles decorated with American, Canadian, and political flags at the K-Mart parking lot in Hamilton as well as signs saying \"we love truckers\" and supporting those truckers as they rally against mandates.<\/p>\n
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The point of all of this is just freedom of choice,\" said event organizer David Bethman. \"We don't care if people get the vaccine or don't get the vaccine. That's a personal decision.<\/p>\n
On Sunday a crowded parking lot was filled with decorated pickup trucks and big rigs protesting COVID-19 mandates.<\/p>\n
We're all just hard-working Americans and Canadians and we just we just want to get rid of the mandate, said Montana trucker Steve Smith.<\/p>\n
The rally was in reaction to vaccine requirements for truckers to work across the northern border with supporters expressing mixed emotions and explaining why they came out to participate.<\/p>\n
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I don't like people sitting here telling me what to do, how to do it, said retired trucker Bobby Tucker.<\/p>\n
Elated, happy you know, it's it's a good feeling, added Enrique Cruz a trucker from Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Cruz added that he came out to support what he calls a brotherhood, \"you know so we can come together for this we can come together for a lot more, said Cruz.<\/p>\n
They werent alone; along the route to Missoula, supporters on the side of the road waved and cheered.<\/p>\n
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