A minimum of two demonstrations, one in Midtown and one on the Georgia Capitol, had been organized on Saturday.
ATLANTA — Scores of protesters had been out Saturday in Atlanta for least two completely different demonstrations, one on the Georgia Capitol and the opposite round Piedmont Park and Midtown.
They had been a part of protests towards the Trump administration in a number of cities throughout the nation, in response to Related Press reporting.
They adopted comparable demonstrations in Atlanta two weekends in the past that centered on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
The bigger of Saturday’s two protests was centered round Piedmont Park and down tenth Avenue, together with on the Rainbow Crosswalk of tenth and Piedmont Ave.
11Alive Photojournalist Dorjan Williams was at each protest websites, and documented quite a few sights and sounds from the protests. You’ll be able to see scenes from the Midtown demonstration within the video above, and from each Midtown and across the state Capitol within the picture gallery under.
Atlant Trump protests on Saturday, April 19
In Midtown, the Georgia NAACP and its president, legal professional Gerald Griggs, held a number of organizing and neighborhood motion boards.
Danielle, a protester on the Capitol who mentioned she was a employee and organizer with the Celebration for Socialism and Liberation, instructed 11Alive she was there as a result of she felt President Trump and Musk are “attempting to destroy our most simple human rights and so they’re attacking each program that working individuals have to survive.”
“We’re simply out right here to say that we cannot take that anymore, we’re fired up, and we cannot take it anymore,” she mentioned.
Kevin King, who mentioned he was a resident of Grant Park, instructed 11Alive he was on the Midtown protests due to the “outrageous assault on our type of authorities that is happening, on so many ranges.”
“We will not simply sit by and go ‘Oh gosh, golly gee that is horrible.’ We’ve to talk up, in order that’s why I got here right here in the present day,” he mentioned.
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