Women For The Wall Rally

DeJanay Booth | Detroit Free Press

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include information on a counter-protester.

A rally to show support for President Donald Trump's initiative to build a wall along the United States' southern border with Mexico was held Saturday afternoon in Bloomfield Hills.

The rally was held at the Oakland County Republican Party's office along Woodward Avenue south of East Square Lake Road.

The event, also called Women for the Wall, was intended for women, in particular, to show support, said event coordinator Meshawn Maddock, co-founder of Michigan Trump Republicans.

Participants lined the sidewalk along Woodward and held up signs for passing cars to see.

Maddock told the Free Press she didn't encounter counter-protesters at the rally, but she did receive calls of people threatening to attend and protest against it.

However, a Free Press photographer took a photo of a lone counter-protester, Warner Mach, 78, of Beverly Hills, who said he is affiliated with the Indivisible group from the 9th Congressional District.

Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press

The rally comes a day after it was announced that the government shutdown ended. Noted as the longest in U.S. history, the shutdown lasted more than a month as Trump and Congress did not agree on appropriating funds to support the proposed wall.