There were somewhere around 200,000 people at No Kings 3 in Saint Paul today. People were coming to the Capitol for three or four hours between at least 11:00 a.m. and well after 2:00 p.m., when the official program was said to start.
First, here's the sign I brought:
I went to the Western Sculpture Park, one of the rally points for people to gather to begin a march to the Capitol. It was the one closest to the Green Line light rail train, and also to Daughter Number Three-Point-One's house, so we walked from there.
These are things we saw at the Sculpture Park:
Yes, that is the giant Constitution you may have seen in coverage of the general strike march in Minneapolis this winter.
These three are from the Capitol grounds:
It was really windy, which made it a great day for flags.
I didn't take very many photos on the Capitol grounds because it was just so crowded, you either couldn't move or were trying to avoid colliding with other people. Come to think of it, you generally couldn't see the signs people had, either.
I had to get back to my own neighborhood by 2:45 for an event, unfortunately. After it took us 15 minutes to squeeze through the crowd over a distance equal to only about a block, we decided we'd better turn around and head back earlier than we had planned.
So we worked our way back to the northwest corner of the Capitol grounds before the official program even got started at 2:00 p.m., and were back at DN3.1's house by 2:15. Very hard to estimate how long things would take.
As we were walking back to her house, we saw hundreds, maybe thousands of people still streaming into the Capitol area.
This is a helicopter shot from BlueSky:
The previous large events I've been to at the Capitol have not filled that lower area of lawn the way you can see here (the part past the curved street), and they also were not packed as tightly as it was today.
I believe the 200,000 figure I've seen reported.
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