A group of residents from Minneapolis’ Kingfield neighborhood, fed up with President Donald Trump, are meeting on the 42nd Street pedestrian bridge over I-35W every Thursday at rush hour for a good old-fashioned primal scream. Every Saturday at 10 a.m.
, there’s a protest on the Rosland Park pedestrian bridge in Edina. Sundays at 1 p.m.
, another group does it on the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge between Loring Park and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. These are the latest incarnations of highway overpass protests, which are legal as long as you don’t affix things to the bridge itself, according to the State Patrol. Drivers in the fall were slowed by banners held from spans that decried Israel’s bombing of Gaza, supported Trump or hyped former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The latest crop has the feel of Resistance 2.0 to Trump 2.0.
The Kingfield neighbors have been gathering and multiplying for three weeks now, waving spicy homemade signs and recruiting passersby to their cause, which they’re calling “ Democracy Bridge .” Cars honk in support as they roll beneath the group’s banner message, which changes each week from “Stop Elon’s Coup” to “Protect 1st Amendment” and “U.S.
Mail Not for Sale.” It feels like a party because many of the protesters live just a few houses apart and know each other well. But Kathy Magne came all the way from St.
Paul to join the south Minneapolis neighborhood last week. Toting a miniature American flag, Magne said it was.
