Photos: Anti-Trump Protests Roll Through Seattle On Inauguration Day

SEATTLE, WA - Roger Knight was ready for the protesters on Friday.

Standing at the Seattle Streetcar stop near 5th Avenue and Jackson Street, he was holding a sign that read "Hillary for Prison." Knight was preparing to confront the hundreds of protesters who were heading in his direction. He likes Trump, and he wants people to give him a chance.

"We have a new day after eight years of Obama," he said.

When the protesters came minutes later, they swarmed around him as they headed west on Jackson. A few news reporters approached Knight, but the confrontation he was prepared for never really came. One protester stopped and stared, and then moved along.

Several hundred protesters marched from the Central District to Westlake on Friday afternoon. They came west down Jackson, and then crossed downtown along 4th Avenue. Police on bikes and motorcycles accompanied them along the way. Though loud at times, the protest was peaceful - there were people of all ages participating.

The protest march was comprised of two groups. Around noon on Friday, students and locals gathered at Seattle Central Community College for a general protest of Trump. That group converged with a group advocating immigrants' rights that left from Judkins Park in the Central District.

The protest blocked traffic as it moved through downtown, and workers and tourists downtown stopped to stare or take photos - some even joined in. Onlookers seemed more curious than annoyed, although a few pro-Trump slogans could be heard in the vicinity of the protest.

When the protest made it to Westlake, the marchers circled around the intersection of 4th Avenue and Pine Street, chanting and asking onlookers to join in.

The rally ended with a series of speeches in the middle of Westlake Park. Alma Morales, a student at Foster High School in Tukwila, spoke about her experience with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She said ICE agents raided her home and detained her mother. She doesn't want other children to have to experience that, she said.

"We can't empower Donald Trump to do what he wants," she said. "We're the people, and he needs to respect our voice!"

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