UPDATE: Dallas police said 7,000 people attended the Women’s March. This estimate was drawn from photos taken from police helicopters that hovered above Pike Park, the march’s destination. The 10,000 figure was an estimate from police officers on the ground near the step off point.
ORIGINAL POST:
More than 10,000 people marched today (Jan. 20) to protest Donald Trump and to call for equality on the one-year anniversary of the inauguration of the current president. An hour later, more than 100 people gathered at Dallas City Hall to call for Trump’s impeachment.
The Women’s March stepped off at 10 a.m. from St. Paul Methodist Church in the Arts District and proceeded a mile to Pike Park near the American Airlines Center.
The march may have attracted more people than last year’s Women’s March which was held soon after Trump took office.
The upcoming election was one reason for the increase in attendees. A number of political candidates walked with groups of supporters. Early voting for the Texas primary begins in just a month.
Counter-protesters appeared at Dallas City Hall for the 11 a.m. rally. Twenty white men counter-protested including one who carried a green neo-Nazi flag emblazoned with K’s where the swastika would be on a Nazi flag. They were loud but largely ignored by the anti-Trump protesters. When a transgender man spoke to the impeach crowd, the Nazis shouted, “There are only two genders,” and to calls for Trump’s impeachment, the Nazi’s chanted, “Seven more years.” That one got the crowd laughing.
It’s not clear why two separate demonstrations took place. The City Hall protest was more specifically to call for impeachment. But no one at the Women’s March chanted, “Ho Ho, Hey Hey, Donald Trump has got to stay.” Signs throughout the Women’s March called for impeachment of the president.
— David Taffet
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6YouZrVIY
This is a terrible piece of writing. I was there not on either side but to see. The Trump side had multiple Hispanic men with them and I didn’t see or hear anything racist.
The green flag is an internet meme called Kekistan specifically designed to make people call it racist to expose people for thinking everything is racist even a flag about a frog.
Obviously fake news.
1. There were no where near 10,000 protesters
2. The Proud Boys are not white supremacists. There are many members of all ethnicities. They are strictly Pro-Western values
There was maybe 100 people at this
This is full of crap, we were there, Nooo where close to this size and on Sunday there were only 30 people at best
The notion that the Proud Boys are white supremacists is completely absurd and the author of this article doesn’t even know what a Kekistan flag is.