Felt good to do something. This one was peaceful, but as has been observed many times before, peaceful protests don’t often have the desired effect.
Wish I would have heard about it sooner. I didn’t see anything until after it happened :/
People on Reddit (and Lemmy too, after it started on reddit) were trash talking the protest plans yesterday, saying they were poorly organized and “people should sit this one out.” My wife went anyway (I had work stuff I needed to do). Based on what we saw today… I wonder if that wasn’t some deliberate misinformation shit that got started on Reddit and went a little viral.
From what we saw (from 5-ish to 8pm), there were cops & protesters directing traffic, and it seemed there were a decent amount of people in the march we did on the streets surrounding the capitol – part of it we went down Broadway. I saw some numbers on Mastodon that earlier in the day it got to 4,000 people. Don’t know the actual tally though.
There’s another one on Saturday apparently. We’re gonna make the drive up from Pueblo.
