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.
In chicago there was one guy with a bullhorn off to the side at one point of the march and the crowd pretty much just drown him out chanting shame but I mean this is a big city with a lot of people although there is only so many people passing by the spot at any particular time. Its inspiring though having so many voices out volume the machine.