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My favorite image of the year – June 22, 2018 – Overland Park, Kansas

29 Saturday Dec 2018

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Making a choice was prompted by an exchange on social media.

I really do care. Do U?

On Twitter:

Michael Bersin @MBersin
Replying to @cathysherwin
@KurtEricksonPD My favorite image of the year – June 22, 2018 – immigration protest in front of Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office in Overland Park, Kansas. #change #YearInReview
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12:03 PM – 29 Dec 2018

F 4.5, 1/400, ISO 200, 180 mm – June was a busy month for public protest.

I had read online that there would be an immigration demonstration in front of Representative Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office in downtown Overland Park on the 22nd starting at 4:00 p.m. I arrived early, parked on the street at a nearby park, and walked to the district office. I had expected a handful of protesters. By the time the demonstration was at its peak there were over five hundred people picketing on the sidewalk. There were a few counter protesters, not more than a handful.

Usually protesters face the street with their signs. Early on I noted this individual with her back to the street. I took a series of images.

It was over four months to the general election, this was Johnson County, Kansas, and over five hundred people showed up. That’s when I realized Kevin Yoder’s (r) 2018 reelection campaign was in trouble.

Sharice Davids (D) is now the Representative-elect for the Third Congressional District of Kansas.

Previously:

Protest imitates fashion (June 22, 2018)

Performance Art (June 22, 2018)

Somebody’s grandmother (June 22, 2018)

Immigration protest at Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office – Overland Park, Kansas – June 22, 2018 (June 23, 2018)

Immigration protest at Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office – Overland Park, Kansas – June 22, 2018

23 Saturday Jun 2018

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Yesterday afternoon in Overland Park, Kansas, over five hundred people showed up for immigration protest in front or Representative Kevin Yoder’s (r) downtown district office.

The demonstration, scheduled to start at 4:00 p.m. started as people gathered in the half hour before the start and continued beyond 5:30 p.m. Passing traffic, for the most part, expressed support with the sound of honking horns. A small handful openly expressed their support for placing children in concentration camps.

At one point, for a relatively short time, two counter protestors with signs expressing anti-immigrant sentiments positioned themselves near the end of the line of protestors.

Earlier in the protest an individual across the street who was recording with her cell phone taunted the protestors, shouting that she dealt in “facts” while the protestors were influenced by emotion. Those across the street protesting who heard her just laughed and then ignored her.

“No body is illegal”

“God loves all his children”

“No kids in prison camps”

Kansas City media.

“Nope”

Doing the right thing.

Throughout the demonstration one individual sat in the small courtyard area in front of Representative Yoder’s (r) office quietly holding his sign:

“Yoder is complicit in Facism”

“Prison is not Summer camp”

There were a number of variations of commentary about Melania Trump’s (r) attempt at social activism:

“Proud son of an immigrant”

We are all God’s children”

There are more of us than there are of them. #Resist.

Previously:

Protest imitates fashion (June 22, 2018)

Performance Art (June 22, 2018)

Somebody’s grandmother (June 22, 2018)

Somebody’s grandmother

22 Friday Jun 2018

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“If you can’t use profanity to describe an obscenity, when the fuck can you use it?” – Blue Girl

This afternoon in Overland Park, Kansas, at an immigration protest in front or Representative Kevin Yoder’s (r) downtown district office:

“Chinga La Migra”

When you’ve upset somebody’s grandmother this much you’ve gone too far.

Previously:

Protest imitates fashion (June 22, 2018)

Performance Art (June 22, 2018)

Performance Art

22 Friday Jun 2018

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It’s got to be. No one is really this cliché, right?

This afternoon in Overland Park, Kansas, at an immigration protest in front or Representative Kevin Yoder’s (r) downtown district office:

Two counter protesters near the end of the long line of demonstrators.

That’s got to be a genuine MAGA hat.

The counter protestor on the right held his sign in front of his face when he noticed me photographing them from across the street. That tells you something.

Ah, he must be sustained by the strength of his convictions.

Previously:

Protest imitates fashion (June 22, 2018)