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Yemeni-Americans Rally in Brooklyn to Protest Trump’s Muslim Ban

Thousands of Yemeni-Americans and their supporters rallied in Brooklyn to protest Donald Trump's executive order.

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People rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall as Yemeni bodega and grocery-stores shut down to protest President Donald Trump's Executive Order banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Yemen, on February 2, 2017 in New York. / AFP / Bryan R. Smith (Photo credit should read BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)
People rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall as Yemeni bodega and grocery-stores shut down to protest President Donald Trump's Executive Order banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Yemen, on February 2, 2017 in New York. / AFP / Bryan R. Smith (Photo credit should read BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images

Thousands of Yemeni-Americans and their supporters rallied on the steps of Brooklyn’s Borough Hall on Thursday evening to protest Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to travelers from Yemen and six other Muslim-majority nations.

My colleague Lauren Feeney was at the rally and streamed live video updates via Facebook.

Images shared by other journalists at the rally, including Liam Stack of the New York Times and Joe Penney of Reuters, showed a sea of Yemeni and American flags.

https://twitter.com/AASchapiro/status/827261673748586496

The rally took place during an eight-hour strike by hundreds of Yemeni-owned grocery stores, also known as bodegas, across New York City.

https://twitter.com/katieraffa/status/827247655042572294

https://twitter.com/AllMyChandler/status/827270686565507075

https://twitter.com/benpiven/status/827258962902867971

Contact the author:

robert.mackey@​theintercept.com @RobertMackey

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