By Adele Uphaus
MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT
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Saturday’s “No Kings” protest drew at least 700 people to downtown Fredericksburg.
The event was one of more than 2,500 that occurred across the country, organized nationally by the group Indivisible, which is a coalition of many groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace, the Human Rights Campaign, the League of Women Voters, the Sierra Club, and others.
Saturday’s events built on the first No Kings Day events, which were held on June 14, and between 2 and 4.8 million people, according to the Crowd Counting Consortium at Harvard University and the University of Connecticut.
The Fredericksburg protest was organized by a coalition of groups including the Spotsy Democrats, Indivisible FXBG, the Fredericksburg Democratic Committee, the Caroline County Democratic Committee, the Stafford Democrats, Virginians Organized in Civic Engagement, and Fredericksburg United for Democracy.
Participants lined up along William Street starting around the St. Mary’s Catholic Church and stretching around the corner onto the Blue and Gray Parkway. They held signs, chanted, and waved.
According to the Fredericksburg Police Department, “around 700” people attended Fredericksburg’s event. Organizers said the final count was much higher, around 2,800.
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