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.
Physically box them out. Form a line and expand it so they have to use force to get past you.
Can you elaborate please, or maybe there's a video or something demonstrating? If we made a line and advanced we'd eventually reach their position and then... what? Assuming this guy still wouldn't move, we'd either have to push inward or abandon? Is it still "non-violent" to lock arms and progress foward? Nobody wants a charge, but seemed impossible without physical contact in some form.
Box him in on 3 sides, everyone link arms and take one step forward. Another step forward, he can step back or be moved by the flow of traffic.