Organizers of a No Kings protest in Livonia, Mich. on Saturday morning have raised concerns about a large set of fencing that has been put up immediately around the area where the protest, scheduled for Saturday morning, is set to take place.
The protest is planned outside Schoolcraft College, a public community college in Livonia, on Haggerty Road. Carol Poenisch, a No Kings Coalition Host in the area, said that event organizers have coordinated with the college’s public safety team to use the parking lot and bathrooms, and that the public safety team will be a presence at the event.
However, photos obtained by the Michigan Advance now show a large fenced-off area on the east side of Haggerty Road — the same side of the road where protesters will be able to park. Poenisch noted that this will make the event more dangerous, writing in an email, “With this restriction, people are now forced to cross Haggerty where there is no crosswalk and cars are going 50 mph.”…