ADRIAN — The theme was similar but the crowd was bigger as local opponents of the Trump administration held a second “No Kings” demonstration at Comstock Park in Adrian on Oct. 18. 

A previous demonstration with the same title was held on June 14, but the numbers at the October event were larger. Although people came and went over the course of a few hours and crowd sizes are difficult to estimate, about 900 people could be counted at the park shortly before noon.

Demonstrators lined the roughly 900-foot length of the Maumee Street and Church Street sides of the park. The crowd also spilled onto the sidewalks inside the park and along the Comstock Park riverfront. 

Some carried flags; some carried signs with messages against authoritarianism. A number of signs focused on reports of brutality by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as part of the administration’s push for mass deportations. 

Several people wore inflatable costumes, a trend started by demonstrators in Portland who began dressing up in inflatable outfits to mock the Trump administration’s claims that Portland was a “war zone.”

Adrian’s demonstration was one of about 2,600 planned for across the country on Oct. 18, including nearby ones in Tecumseh and Monroe.