Atlanta police says the crowd at a protest against President Donald Trump's policies Saturday drew at least 60,000 people. One of them was a Habersham County woman who expressed horror at Trump's statements about women..
Police spokeswoman Lisa F. Bender provided the crowd estimate in an email Saturday afternoon.
Amid intermittent downpours that gave way to clear skies, the protesters gathered to join their voices with others nationwide and tell the new president they oppose much of what he says he plans to do. The largest was in Washington, D.C.
The demonstration billed as the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women was sponsored by multiple groups including the ACLU of Georgia, the NAACP, Georgia Equality and Planned Parenthood.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis told the demonstrators to "never, never, ever give up," while urging them to organize and register new voters.
The Atlanta Democrat made headlines earlier this month for challenging Trump's legitimacy. Trump responded with a Twitter post calling Lewis "all talk" and urging him to attend to his own "crime ridden" district. Lewis is a veteran of the civil rights movement who was badly beaten on the historic 1965 "Bloody Sunday" demonstration in Selma, Alabama.
Following Trump's tweet, dozens of House Democrats promised to boycott his inauguration.
Sixty-six-year-old educator Diane Lent, who came to the Atlanta protest from Habersham County said she worries about education under Trump, and she has been "horrified" at his statements about women.
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