A “No Kings” rally drew about 3,500 people to downtown Redlands on Saturday, March 28, according to the Redlands Police Department, as demonstrators packed Peace Corner and lined Orange Street in one of the city’s largest recent public protests. Organizers said the crowd stretched from City Hall and the mall area to side streets and toward Trader Joe’s, underscoring the scale of opposition voiced at the event.
But beyond the crowd size, two themes surfaced repeatedly in interviews with attendees: fear over the future of public education and concern that people are avoiding medical care.
Karen Arnstein, a Redlands resident, teacher and researcher, said she attended because the stakes felt personal…