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Waking up a bit late, I made it to the protest at 10:45 am , arriving lazily like it was a garden party.



I entered the protest area in front of City Hall which looked to be around 85 percent full on all three tiers of Grand Park while protesters could be seen stretching far out onto First ,Temple, Broadway and Los Angeles streets.

There were some distinct variations on some recent anti Trump Rallies.

During the last two immigration protests where the 101 was shut down bodily, Mexican flags were somewhat ubiquitous, but this time the American flag and the dual flag were predominant.

The ethnic and racial makeup seemed different at this juncture with more Caucasian, Asian, elderly and toddler participants while still maintaining a strong Hispanic participation that led a vital spirit to the rally. There were plenty of families of every stripe. Couples from 18 to 80 raised their voices against the 47th President of these United States. Grand parents held witty and biting signs, while flags were everywhere. Low Riders pumped hip hop bass and Spanish Music into the crowd and nobody seemed to mind. It seemed to inspire all. You could see how it gave confidence to the steps of the people marching, old and young.

People were universally polite to each other as they marched on First Street to Broadway to Temple's steep incline down to Spring and the steps of City Hall.

The March was packed and boisterous with a grand but angry goodwill electrically bouncing through the crowd made up of Angelenos who had been threatened in their homes with family dissolution and a demonstrated profound presidential disrespect for the work that they do and the rules that they follow and the overwhelming contribution that they make to the City of Angeles.

People were protesting for their neighbors, family, friends and acquaintances. There seemed to be a great deal of empathy and anger in the crowd.

Things changed around 2:30 pm.

The event was scheduled to end at 2 pm.

Some people were leaving.

But many were not going for awhile.

Folks had been arriving throughout the day so the streets were quite crowded. It was sort of a party atmosphere with a sub-current of profound anger.

William Wallace might have empathy for this modern revolt.



All of the surrounding Federal Buildings were protected by lethally armed National Guardsmen who were being crowded and harassed by some of the more strident and aggressive rally goers.

Around 3 pm the Cavalry came out along with flash bang rounds and tear gas.

An LAPD front line armed with flash bang guns and rubber bullet rifles led the phalanx of horses and National guardsman in various massive crowd pushes that caused the protesters to run in retreat only to be crowded in by a different security force until all of the exits were shut off around City Hall excepting the Southern exit through Grand Park.

According to CBS 38 arrests were made for remaining after curfew and for remaining in the area after an unlawful assembly was declared after 4 pm.

7 LAPD policeman were injured at this event while 500 or more protesters have been arrested in the last two weeks of unrest.

Millions attended the No King rallies in 2100 cities and towns nationwide with an estimated 200,000 or more in Los Angeles and over 5 million people nationwide. { Credit Democracy Now }

Meanwhile Donald Trump and Steven Millers scythe continues to dismember Southern California families with ongoing ICE raids in swap meets and street vendors.



Robert Stuart Lowden

Los Angeles

June 15th, 2025



Note * There are 2 day workers at the Highland Park Home Depot today-6-15-2025.