Woman speeds through Tennessee vaccination tent in SUV to protest Covid-19 jabs

Maryville, Tennessee - Virginia Christine Lewis Brown faces multiple reckless endangerment charges after speeding through a coronavirus vaccination tent – to protest the vaccine.

Virginia Christine Lewis Brown (36) was charged with seven counts of reckless endangerment (stock image).
Virginia Christine Lewis Brown (36) was charged with seven counts of reckless endangerment (stock image).  © 123rf/federicofoto

On Monday morning, Blount County Deputy Kevin Snider was working the event in the parking lot of Foothills Mall in Maryville when he witnessed the frightening incident.

According to his report obtained by WBIR, he noticed the blue Chrysler SUV right away because of the driver's unusual behavior.

Cars typically stop and sign in with National Guard personnel before proceeding slowly through a course marked with cones into a large tent to get the injection. Instead, Brown's SUV "[traveled] at a high rate of speed through the closed cone course and through an enclosed tent," the deputy reported.

He added that the car "[exited] the tent and [continued to] drive recklessly through the cone course."

More than a dozen people were working inside that tent at the time. Snider remembered several of them running up to his patrol car to inform him that they were almost hit.

The deputy then followed the SUV and pulled it over on Morganton Road.

Virginia Christine Lewis Brown was arrested and transported to Blount County Detention Facility

The 36-year-old driver, Virginia Christine Lewis Brown, told Snider "she was driving through to protest the vaccine."

She was immediately arrested and transported to the Blount County Detention Facility.

In his report, Snider said he spoke with everyone inside the tent and that seven of those people were feared for their lives when the car raced in.

Some of them also said they believed Brown was yelling things like "no vaccine" as she drove through.

Brown was charged with seven counts of reckless endangerment.

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