The Votes Are In!
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Protesters in New York City demand election officials “Count Every Vote” during the still undecided 2020 presidential election on November 4, 2020. (Photo: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Hundreds of people were arrested in Minneapolis and New York City Wednesday night at protests against President Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the ongoing 2020 presidential election, part of the nationwide “Count Every Vote” campaign.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said Thursday that state troopers and Minneapolis police arrested 646 people beginning after 7:45 pm after they flooded Interstate 94, where, according to the Star-Tribune, they marched against the president’s threats to contest the results of the undecided election, as well against police brutality and endless U.S. wars, and for racial justice, climate action, and other progressive causes. A protest is starting now in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis.
It was organized by anti-war, immigrant rights, and racial justice groups with dual messages for either election result: “Fight Trump and everything he stands for” and “A Biden win will not give the freedom we demand.” pic.twitter.com/KK0dutJ7fQ — Tony Webster (@webster) November 5, 2020 Live streams from I-94 show officers encircling dozens of well-known social justice activists, like @nvlevy , Monique Cullars-Doty, aunt […]
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