YPSILANTI, MI – It started on the sidewalks, and then, they took to the streets.

There were close to 100 No Kings demonstrations on Saturday, Oct. 18, that erupted in chants, cheers and honking horns — at times, laden with expletives and ire — in communities across Michigan in a nationally coordinated day of protest against President Donald Trump. Another was held earlier this year.

In Ypsilanti, where hundreds of participants initially packed Riverside Park, long processions of marchers split in different directions through town, each circling part of Huron, Cross and River streets and Michigan Avenue.

But while one kept to the sidewalk — with a mix of families and adult marchers — another left the sidewalk that was as organized on message as it was at stopping oncoming traffic.

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