Politics & Government
Anti-Donald Trump Protest Shuts Down Charlotte Avenue Near Downtown Nashville
The protesters, including students from Fisk University, have marched from Broadway towards West Nashville.
NASHVILLE, TN —Groups of protesters, all opposing the election of Donald Trump, melded into a mass and shut down traffic on Charlotte Avenue just before rush hour Wednesday.
A group of 30 protesters, organized on Facebook by 17-year-old Nick McKenzie according to The Tennessean, met up a second group of Fisk University students near the Capitol, along with members of Food Not Bombs. and then continued to Eighth Avenue and Charlotte and marched west, briefly blocking access to Interstate 40 near 12th Avenue before moving on.
Police operated rolling roadblocks and redirected traffic but largely did not interfere with the marchers, except to warn the protesters to stay off of the interstate, according to the newspaper.
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