A small park built on a site that was once a swampy, sewage-filled pond was ground zero for the frenzy surrounding former President Donald Trump's expected surrender Tuesday at a courthouse in Lower Manhattan.
Hundreds of onlookers, protesters, journalists and a few attention-seeking politicians swarmed into the confines of Collect Pond Park,The crowd was small, by the standards of New York City protests, which routinely draw thousands. And fears that unruly mobs might force police to shut down swaths of the city proved to be unfounded, with security measures mostly disappearing within a couple of bocks.
"I'm not here for the cameras," he insisted to reporters. "I want to support the president, just because I think this is unprecedented, and it's a bad day for democracy." A few hundred did show up to support Trump on Tuesday, waving Trump flags and wearing "Make America Great Again" hats. "We wanted to come down and kind of witness what was going on, and say that we were as close to it as we could be," Heath said. "In Indiana, we don't have this much excitement."
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