Massive North Carolina crowd protests Trump, anti-LGBT law

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Massive North Carolina crowd protests Trump, anti-LGBT law

Feb. 11, 2017 3:35 PM EST

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A massive crowd energized in opposition to President Donald Trump and to a state law limiting LGBT rights streamed into North Carolina's capital for an annual civil rights march on Saturday.

The "Moral March on Raleigh" in downtown Raleigh was led by the North Carolina NAACP for an 11th year. Participants carried signs promoting issues from gerrymandering and immigration to public education.

Raleigh police don't provide crowd estimates. Event organizers predicted 20,000 people. The surface area that the crowd covered neared the march's previous peak from 2014.

Saturday's protesters also want to see a repeal of House Bill 2, which limits LGBT rights and which bathrooms transgender people can use.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/massive-north-carolina-crowd-protests-trump-anti-lgbt-law

[sheshe2]

1. I love this.

Many of us used our voice in this election. Yet it was drowned out by hatred. We were just numbers on ballot counts. No more...we are in the street now. Visible. This has only just begun.

We will be heard.

Resist Persist

[Grammy23]

2. My niece and her husband were there for the Moral March rally today.

And no, they weren't paid a dime to be there, in case anyone asks. She said they heard Rev Barber speak and that he was very inspiring. I predict more marches, rallies and protests across the country. And there is nothing Trumplethinskin can do about it.

[sheshe2]

3. March on!