3-1/2 block march. Drummers set the cadence. Focus was to rally against Trump troop deployments that Trump aides have warned are in the works. Posters covered a range of grievances, including tariffs, food prices, healthcare and a tilt in the nation’s economic structure to favor the well-off. Images: Mercad9 Media
Among messages: Minnesotans welcome immigrants
ST. PAUL, Minn. — An anti-Trump crowd paraded at the state Capitol to protest against the possibility of a federal military occupation like those in recent weeks in Los Angeles and other Democrat-leaning cities. The parade followed a news conference a day earlier at which Kristi Noem, Trump’s homeland security chief, said to expect a larger presence of deportation agents in the state. Noem was not specific about plans to send soldiers to occupy Minnesota or whether Trump might mobilize National Guard units. The rally on the Capitol steps and the parade were organized by the citizen group People’s Action Coalition Against Trump. There was no violence, consistent with the constitutional right of the people “peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
