UPDATE (5:30 p.m. Aug. 29):

Albemarle County officials are responding to Tuesday's protest near the Albemarle County Office Building at Preston Avenue and McIntire Road that involved a giant inflatable "Trump Chicken."

According to a release, the county did not authorize and did not participate in the protest and electricity from the building was not used to inflate the cartoon animal.

County staff and Albemarle County Police Department officers informed the organizers of the protest that they were in violation of the grounds and parking policies for equipment on county property.

The county has not yet lifted a local state of emergency that was instituted for the weekend of Aug. 12, so special parking regulations are still in effect.

Those regulations say visitor parking is for county business until 10 p.m. or when the building closes on weekdays. The parking lot will reopen at 6 a.m. each morning.

On the weekends, the parking lots close to the public at 10 p.m. on Fridays and reopen on Mondays at 6 a.m.

The protesters were also told they were parking illegally.

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Protesters with Indivisible Charlottesville drew honks from passersby with a giant inflatable Trump Chicken at their weekly protest in front of the Albemarle County Office Building on Tuesday.

The inflatable chicken with Trump-styled hair-do and hands is a replica of similar inflatables that have been flown at

and in San Francisco. The balloon in Charlottesville belongs to Freeda Cathcart, the founder of Indivisible Virginia.

Indivisible Charlottesville organizer Caroline Melton said the weekly protests are focused on turning out the vote and flipping the Fifth District to Democrats on Nov. 6. The Trump Chicken, she said, helps "call attention to the corruption that we see coming from Trump and from the White House."

Not everyone was a fan of the display.

"I think the Trump Chicken is played out after more than a year," said George Urban, chair of the Albemarle County Republican Committee.

"I would have been more impressed with an inflatable Bigfoot," he said, referring to

in which the Democratic candidate for the Fifth District, Leslie Cockburn, posted a tweet about Republican candidate Denver Riggleman's authoring of a book on Bigfoot sexuality.

The phrase "Bigfoot erotica" suddenly became a part of national political discourse for several days.