We had a situation evolve at my small local no kings. After an hour chilling, a trump supporter pulled up in a truck, unloaded a giant MAGA flag and planted himself right in the middle of the group. He was non violent, said very little, and mostly just stood there.
The supervising police would not remove him, and told us he had “the same right to be there that we have”.
Obviously we were all quite uncomfortable having this shit flag overshadowing us, but no one was sure what could be done about it, so we sucked it up and continued on as if he wasn’t there.
How would you have handled this situation? Is there anytime that can be done in the future to prevent this?
Ps Fuck trump and his cult.
I appreciate the kind words and advice. He absolutely bothered me, but there was no taking away that ~200 people gathered in a deep red, rural town of 5000. That’s near or over the 3.5% and I consider our protest a success regardless of bigflag’s presence. Very proud of the community coming together, hopefully we can start seeing change
That’s absolutely power.