PROVIDENCE — The unofficial estimate from Providence police put the size of the crowd of No Kings demonstrators who turned out Saturday afternoon to march from the State House to downtown at 20,000.
Organizers had hoped to see upward of 50,000 people arrive for what was the third iteration of the protest against the policies of the Trump administration. But the lower than expected total was not disheartening to Marrianna Richardson, 76, an organizer for South County Resistance.
An activist since the Vietnam War, she said she remembers joining a demonstration of hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C., ahead of the first Persian Gulf War in 1990…