Jason Gonzales, Ariana Maia Sawyer, and Anita Wadhwani

The Tennessean

More than 2,500 protesters converged in downtown Nashville to protest a rally by President Donald Trump at Municipal Auditorium.

Although the crowd appeared largely peaceful, Metro police said two people were cited — a man for shoving someone and a woman for fighting in line. Police did not say whether they were protesters or supporters.

And Metro police did confront a group of Fisk University students, with one officer giving the students two minutes to move from a sidewalk where they were sitting next to a line of Trump supporters waiting to get inside.

“This is your warning,” the officer said. “You have two minutes to do your business and move on. If not you will be arrested.”

The group eventually dispersed.

Before heading to Municipal Auditorium, protesters gathered in Nashville’s downtown public square park, where their rally focused largely on Trump’s immigrant travel ban. The gathering took place just as a federal judge in Hawaii ruled to put the ban on hold. Karla Vasquez, a member of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, said, as an undocumented immigrant, she is here to stay.

But protesters had a variety of other concerns.

Karla Barde, a retired first-grade teacher from Franklin, said she was worried about the state of public education, health care and freedom of the press under the Republican agenda. Craig Mathews, a 68-year-old Vietnam War veteran, said he was offended by Trump’s remarks denigrating Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war.

About 100 students from LEAD Academy spent their lunch hour protesting Trump’s visit. They returned to school at the end of their lunch hour, and school officials said that while the school doesn’t make political statements, they “were proud of our students for engaging in a peaceful and nonviolent protest as future leaders of our city and country.”

At times Trump supporters and opponents engaged in heated exchanges. When a group of pastors protesting Trump walked by a line of Trump supporters, they were drowned out by supporters singing “God Bless America” while one Trump supporter threatened to fight them.

But there also were times when supporters and opponents engaged in measured conversations, not shouting matches, on issues such as gun rights and gun violence, health care and immigration.

Earlier in the day, a small Native American activist group of about 15 people gathered along the route Trump took to The Hermitage, the historic home of President Andrew Jackson.

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