Hundreds of Plateau locals gathered on the corner of Griffin and Porter for the national “No Kings” demonstration last Saturday.

Unofficial counts put the gathering at between 600 and 700 people, though it was slightly harder to tell how many protesters and how many counter-protesters were at the event than the one in June; there were more supporters of President Donald Trump in attendance this time around, and they were more spread out.

The two-hour demonstration appeared mostly positive, brightly colored, and energetic, even as the weather threatened to turn.

There were pockets of tension, however: it was clear that protesters weren’t thrilled that Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” was blasted through a portable boom box, and some demonstrators drowned out a counter-protester carrying a la

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