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Protesters gathered in San Francisco have gathered over the weekend for a march and rally in support of women’s rights and other causes ahead of Monday’s presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.
San Francisco police could not provide a crowd estimate for the event, but said officers were on hand to “facilitate First Amendment activity” in the Mission District, where a march was planned ahead of a rally at Dolores Mission Park.
A police spokesperson said there were no arrests or injuries and that the Saturday event was peaceful.
Some groups that had planned separate events converged on a single march and rally in the Mission District to increase their numbers, according to messages to participants from a Berkeley Women’s March group and one that had planned a separate San Francisco event.
The marches and protests are a repeat of the women’s marches that happened in 2017, the day after Trump’s first inauguration, and annually since then in smaller numbers across the country.
At that time, Trump had been criticized for offensive comments about women and crude remarks about assaulting them in a recorded conversation on Access Hollywood, but he had not yet been found liable for sexually abusing someone. He faces numerous other claims of sexual abuse or misconduct.
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Protesters gathered for a rally at Dolores Mission Park after a Women’s March in San Francisco, Calif. on Jan. 18, 2025. (Margaret Rowlands via Bay City News)
Several of his cabinet picks have faced similar accusations, including his first choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, his nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., his Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Protesters also rallied in support of causes like climate change, Palestinian rights, reproductive rights and democracy and spoke out against what they said was corruption in the court system.
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