‘Free America’ Protesters Demonstrate At CT State Capitol

by Donald Eng

HARTFORD, CT — For the second consecutive week, a crowd of protesters descended on the State Capitol in Hartford Tuesday, demonstrating against increasingly violent tactics employed by immigration officials in the wake of the killing of Minnesota woman Renee Nicole Good Jan. 7.

The protest was part of a series of “Free America” rallies scheduled nationwide, with at least eight others planned in Connecticut.

The date of the walkout is exactly one year after President Donald Trump was sworn into office. Organizers bill the event as “a walk towards a free America,” pushing back against what they say is “an escalating fascist threat” from the current administration.

“This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable,” organizers said on their website. “We will walk out of work, school, and commerce. We will withhold our labor, our participation, and our consent.”