“I think it’s important for them to know that the right thing to do is to stand up for people,” Scott said. Wendy Scott showed up with her 5-year-old twins - a boy and a girl - who are biracial and raised by lesbian mothers. Cori Zaragoza said she wanted to show others in the community that “not everyone is like that.” Some caravan participants said racism in East County was the reason they demonstrated there. Asked about his thoughts on equality or lack thereof in the criminal justice system, the man, who declined to give his name, said, “Life ain’t fair.” Standing near his white pickup as caravan participants decorated their cars, a man decked out in a Defend East County hat and white T-shirt said he viewed Black Lives Matter supporters as a domestic terrorist group that is waging a civil war. Participants decorated their cars in the parking lot of an Albertsons on Winter Gardens Boulevard near Lemon Crest Drive - where a swarm of counter-protesters, many of them wearing Defend East County hats and T-shirts and waving U.S., Trump 2020 and pro-law enforcement flags, converged, as well.Ĭounter-protesters shouted, “All lives matter” and “Go home.” (Sandy Huffaker / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
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