Report from a Minnesota No Kings event [View all]
Law enforcement and the governor advised people not to attend any No Kings events in Minnesota "out of an abundance of caution," but I guess a lot of us decided to fuck the abundance of caution and went anyhow. I had originally wanted to go to the big one at the Capitol but I concluded that my creaky old knees would have objected to the amount of walking and standing they would have had to endure - so I decided to go to a smaller "satellite" event a few miles away, elsewhere in St. Paul. I don't know how many people were there; the crowd was strung out along both sides of a couple of blocks on a busy street but there would have been at least several hundred. It was an enthusiastic, even joyful crowd, lots of chanting and cheering, lots of waves and horns from passing cars, and plenty of clever signs. No violence, no incidents, police weren't even there except to drive by a couple of times and wave to us.
Some photos:
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