Dave Mason

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Color. Day. Line of people at the front of a crowd of marchers on a city street. Many hold signs: "FREE MEMPHIS MANE"; "SAY NO TO MILITARY OCCUPATION"; "FREE THE 901"; "OPPORTUNITY NOT OCCUPATION"; "NO NATIONAL GUARD IN OUR BACKYARD"
Color. Day. On the left, the large, plate glass window of a ground-floor barber shop, surrounded by brick. Through the window, a man under a pale blue smock is being shaved by a woman in an off-white smock. On the right, an alley recedes some forty or fifty meters. The wall at the end of this narrow alley is decorated side-to-side and top-to-bottom with tightly-packed black-and-white art in the nature of panels from comic books and newspaper comic strips. One person stands in the alley and another crouches, both looking at the graffiti.
Color. Day. A small, unassuming suburban street. This little lane is choked with large SUVs and trucks, some black, some white, that leave barely enough room between them—in the street—for a body to pass through. In the distance, the top of a tall armored personnel carrier on top of which is an honest-to-goodness turret, from which rises the top half of a man in battle gear, aiming a giant machine gun. In the middle distance, standing in the street inside the press of suvs and trucks, are two men in battle gear.
B&W. Day. A city park. Several people in winter wear. In the foreground, a person behind a lectern holding a mic. In the background, people holding signs: "VETS Against the WAR Machine"; "VETS SAY NO"
Color. Day. A sidewalk approaching a major suburban intersection. A small crowd of people on the sidewalk holding signs. The people are mostly elderly. One person on the right raises a tambourine in their right hand. People in the back hold up Ukrainian and USA flags. Some of the signs: "SUPPORT OUR CONSTITUTION; REJECT DICTATORS"; "STOP CRUELTY"; "ANTI-FASCISM; PRO-AMERICAN"; "NO KINGS SINCE 1776"; "IT'S NO LONGER A DIFFERENCE IN POLITICAL OPINION; IT'S A DIFFERENCE IN MORALITY"
Color. Day. A public plaza. Tall buildings in the far background. A small crowd, holding signs: "FOOD NOT TROOPS"; "RESIST"; "I MARCHED IN 1968 - STILL MARCHING IN 2025". One person wrapped in a sousaphone. In the foreground, on the right, a person with dark hair and wearing a black t-shirt holds a red-and-white megaphone in their left hand, and holds the megaphone's detachable transmitter to their mouth with their right hand.
Color. Day. A man in a blue hat and sunglasses holding a yellow sign with blue lettering: "WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER"
Color. Day. Street running in front of the National Civil Rights Museum. The NCRM stands in the background. A crowd of people in the street, holding signs, including: "HANDS OFF OUR VOTES".
Color. Day. Looking up at the three-story wall of a bar on Beale Street. Neon signs at bottom left and right: "Alfred's" and "Patio Bar." A light pole running up the left foreground with three signs: "Speed Limit 20", "NO TRUCKS OR BUSES", and "ONE WAY." Rising two floors on the wall above, a black banner on which is white and yellow text: "TENNESSEE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD; YOU JOINED TO SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY; SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MEMPHIS? NotWhatYouSignedUpFor.org"
Color. Night. The back of a woman, on the far left. The driver's side of a gray across the center and right. The driver's window is down. Most of the driver's face—dark beard and mustache—is turned toward the woman. The driver's eyes are wide and pleading.
Color. Day. Looking down the median of a city avenue that is covered by white ice. Bare trees and gray sky in the background. Large, red lettering on the ice covering the roadway: "ICE KILLS".
B&W. Day. Two hills of an old wood rollercoaster, approaching from a distance in the lower left to the upper right in the foreground. At the top of the distance arch in the lower left, a coast car, with riders, just starting its descent.
Color. Day. A stretch of green grass, at bottom. A small crowd in the background. Near center, foreground, is a person in sunglasses holding a white sign on which is black, blue, and green lettering: "NO TRUMP; NO ICE; NO UNSAFE TASK FORCE"
B&W. Day. A small crowd of people. At center, a woman wearing a backpack and a dark t-shirt on which is white lettering: "DISABILITY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS"
Color. Day. The steps of the U.S. Capitol. A man in sunglasses and a U.S. Air Force uniform holds a black sign with a white border and white text: "IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE" Smaller letters in the sign's lower right: "REMOVAL COALITION"
Color. Day. A mall, suburban lane. At center in the background is a slightly leaning stop sign and a pole on which are the street markers. At center, a gray sedan pulled to the curb, pointed from center to downstage right. Both front doors are open. A Black person sits in the front passenger seat with one leg out, resting a foot on the pavement. At two angles behind the sedan—blocking off the entirety of the lane—are two, dark SUVs. Illuminated blue lights, secreted into the grill of the SUV on the far right, can be seen. On the far left, a blue MPD SUV. An MPD officer stands behind the MPD SUV, apparently completing paperwork on the SUV's hood. Just up the curb, on the grass to the left of the sedan, stands a man in a cap and one of those stupid vests. He has a handgun in a holster on his belt. On the sedan's right stands another such man, in a cap, sunglasses, beard, and stupid vest. He is also armed. So... these two armed federal agents of the Memphis Unsafe Task Force—formed to serve ICE's racist bidding—are standing at the open doors of this sedan, hovering over a Black teenager, while an MPD officer does paperwork in the background, and while their tinted and unmarked SUVs block off the road. As a matter of fact, there's a third federal agent on this scene who doesn't appear in this photo.
Color. Night. A tall, iron-work-style, arched gate across a suburban driveway. Thin bars rising as high as eight feet. On the near side of the gate, a clax of six agents in those dopy vests, guns on their hips. They are tightly packed up against the near side of the gate. Their vests are marked as "HSI", "POLICE", and "U.S. Marshal". A stark flashlight beam lights up a part of the gate near their feet. On the other side of the gate, facing the agents through the gate, two men of dark complexions. The taller, near center, wears a cap, and looks directly at the agents packed together at his gate. The shorter, on the left, is obscured in shadow. White text on black background, above and below the photograph: "There will be other Courts and other Americans, who will care about this history, and how we choose to make it and see it... The seeing, just the seeing, is of huge importance, for all of us." —Timothy Snyder
Color. Day. People crossing a major city street in a crosswalk, from downstage to upstage and vice-versa. At center, moving upstage, a person holds a white sign in their left hand that is partly obscured by their head: "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY... I'LL... THE... IF... TO!!" They wave a small USA flag with their right hand. on the far left, waving to traffic passing by, a person inside a head-to-toe taco costume and wearing a mask in the form of POTUS. They hold a white sign with red letters in their left hand: "TACO MCCANKLES - NO KINGS"
Color. Day. A small group of people in a city plaza, all turned to the right. At the far right: a person in the coils of a sousaphone. Another person standing just in front of the sousaphone holding a black sign with white lettering: "OUR CONSTITUTION PROTECTS FREE SPEECH & DUE PROCESS FOR ALL!" At center, a man in a tank top with an elaborate tattoo on his shoulder, upper arm, and around his elbow. On the left, seated on a ledge, a person with a hoodie over their head holding a white sign with blue lettering: "YES: COMMUNITY WELLNESS"
Color. Day. A stand of scrawny green shrubbery, out of focus, in the foreground. In the background, seen in pieces through the shrubbery, a suburban house above green lawn. A large black pickup in a driveway, on the right. On the left, in the driveway behind the truck, four stupidly muscled men in sleeve masks and caps. Tattoos on their arms. Only one of them wears one of those stupid vests. They've turned their faces to look at the viewer, through the shrubbery. The goon in the stupid vest holds small binoculars to his eyes.
Color. Day. A city park. Green grass. Trees in the background. A person in a dark cap and blue-and-black shirt stands, turned away, just right of center. At the far right, a person in a floppy hat and sunglasses. Just left of center, a person with long brown hair, sunglasses, and a blue shirt, holding a black sign on a stick. There is light green, block-letter text on the sign: "YOUR RACISM WILL NOT DEFEAT US!"
On a red background, white text, styled in the manner of printed letters cut from magazines for a ransom note: "REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE COWARDS." Running vertically on both sides: "POTUS HAS COMMITTED HIGH CRIMES." In small text at the bottom: "#ImpeachAndRemove"
Color. Day. An approaching hallway. On the hallway left is a corridor wall in which are embedded two glass doors, behind which some red neon lighting is visible. Approaching in the hallway are two young people, on e in cutoff overalls and a pink shirt, the other in black overalls and a gray shirt. The person in the gray shirt is bald. A few people and a large mobile sculpture at the far end of the hallway. On the hallway's right is a wall of glass windows, tilted outward towards the top perhaps twenty degrees. People in the hallway reflect at a skewed angle in the glass. Visible in the distance through the glass wall, on the right in the background, standing in another part of the building, a woman in a wedding dress. The reflections of people in the hallway stand tilted around her.
Color. Day. A green lawn. People, out of focus in the background, sitting in chairs in a circle on the lawn. One of the people is standing and speaking into a microphone. In focus, just right of center in the foreground is the thin trunk of a tree, crossing the frame vertically. Attached to the tree is a white sign with blue lettering:; "Let Justice roll down like Water." Three squiggly lines alluding to ocean waves have been drawn below the lettering.
Color. Day. A small crowd. A solid plum wall in the background. A person near center wearing a shirt with narrow rainbow stripes running horizontally. A person, out of focus in the near foreground, carrying a rainbow patterned hand fan. At center, a person with long pink hair looking at their phone, as held in both hands. This person is dressed in a kaleidoscopic motley of yellows, violet, azure, topaz, magenta, orange, light pink, and more. Their wrists are caked with baubly bracelets of the same colors, and their fingers sport several similar rings. An oversized heart pendant drapes around their neck. They wear a light blue tiara and some kind of sky-stars-suns-rainbows scene on a band on their forehead. Their eyelids are painted light blue. A single, light blue horn rises from their head, just in front of the tiara.
Color. A solid black wall. A very thin strip of hardwood floor barely visible at the bottom. On the black wall are thirteen separate, multi-colored neon signs, fashioned in rectangular shapes of different sizes. "NO DAPL!" 'PARA TODOS TODO NADA PARA NOSOTROS" "IF THEY COME FOR ME IN THE MORNING THEY WILL COME FOR YOU IN THE NIGHT" "LOVE CAN CONQUER" "LA MIGRACIÓN ES NATURAL" "<CHINESE>" "AMERICA IS FOR DREAMERS" "AQUA IS LIFE; NO ICE" "INVEST IN THE OPPRESSED" "DEPORT ICE" "AMÉRICA ES PARA LOS DREAMERS" "EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE NOTHING FOR OURSELVES" "FIGHT THE POWER"
B&W. Day. A city street. A crowd of teenagers, approaching. Many of them hold signs. On the right edge of the group, a person with long, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket and plaid skirt holds a sign over her head: "YOU CAN'T LOVE OUR CULTURE BUT HATE OUR PEOPLE". At center, foreground, a person in a dark yarn cap and jacket looks at the viewer. He holds one hand up, pointing at the sign in his other hand: "ICE IN OUR CUPS NOT INI OUR STREET". At the far right, in the background: An SUV, across the side of which are white letters: POLICE.
Color. Day. A city park. A crowd. At center, a man wearing a giant orange squid on his head and holding a black sign with white lettering: "NO KINGS."
A Black woman in sunglasses with a microphone
Color. Day. Beale Street in Memphis, running left-right. Brick building in the background. Running parallel to the street underfoot, about three feet above the blacktop, the length of the frame, a giant rainbow flag, half the width of the street. At center, on the far side of the flag, a flag-bearer, whose face beneath a rainbow-umbrella hat is turned toward the viewer.
Color. Day. A crowd of activists processing past a stately federal building. At center, a white sign on which is red and blue text: "NO FCKING TYRANTS"
Color. Day. A city street. A crowd in the background. Some signs, at the left, including "NO KINGS" on yellow signboard. At center and extending to the lower left corner, a long, red banner, held at center by a person with long brown hair, wearing a dark cap, sunglasses, and an orange jacket. White block letters on black bars atop the red banner's background: "FIGHT TRUMP; LEGALIZATION, NOT DEPORTATION." A black-and-white image of Little Prince Pumpkin, looking as stupid as usual, and with a black line lying across him, is at the left end of the banner.
Color. Day. A crowd of law enforcement vehicles packed into a suburban lane, two rows wide. At center, between the rows of vehicles, stands National Guardsman Newberry, in full desert-camo clown outfit, gun strapped to his chest (of all places) holding up a cell phone to point its camera lens, in dramatic, Constitution-violating fashion, at the viewer.
Color. Day. A public plaza. Just to the right, a person fiercely embracing a second person, whose back is draped in a pride flag. The first person's face is turned up and wears a gigantic, face-splitting smile.
Color. Day. A city park. Small crowd under shadows in the background. At center, a person in a blue and white shirt holds a white sign affixed to a long stick, the end of which rests on the ground, out of frame. On the sign: An image of the head of a pig, facing forward. The head is perched on human shoulders and has a strange, yellow sweep of yellow hair. Blue and red, stencil-style lettering below the pig image: "NATIONAL PIG."
Color. Day. Sidewalk along the National Civil Rights Museum's plaza. The view is from way down low, on the sidewalk. In the distance, a small crowd. A person holds a tall flagpole on which is a trans-pride flag. To that person's left, a person holding a sign with black lettering on trans-color stripes: "WE STILL EXIST WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT." In the very near foreground, two sets of feet, between which the people in the distance are visible. The feet on the left are at the bottom of purple lace stockings and inside five-inch platform shoes, the surface of which is iridescent scales. The feet on the right appear below the hem of a white gown and are in thick-soled, light-green sneakers.
Color. Day. A narrow city street, crossing from midpoint-left to lower-right. A crowd of people on far side of the street. Grass and blue sky behind the crowd. Two people wearing coats on the near side of the street, in the left of the frame. One of these two holds a flagpole in their upstage hand. On the pole, above and to the right of center, is a large, dark blue flag with a couple of red stripes, a few white stars, and white lettering: "FUCK TRUMP; If You Like Trump Fuck You Too!
Color. Day. A city park. Green grass and trees in the background. In the midst of a small crowd of people, a person wearing a giant taco and a mask resembling Little Prince Pumpkin in a red cap. The person waves a small, upside-down USA flag. On the right, another person holds up a sign on which is multi-colored lettering: "NO Kings; STOP WAR; NO ICE; VOTE"
Color. Day. A densely packed crowd on Beale Street in Memphis. At center, an activist wearing a gray cap, dark goggles, and gloves, holding the middle of a broad, white banner. Only a portion of what's written on the banner is visible. Behind and above the activist in goggles is a large, white sign with a black border, held up by someone further back in the crowd. Vertically down the sign's left side, one letter below another, in red text on a yellow bar: "T R U M P." Extending to the right, on this sign, using the column of red letters: "TRAITOR RAPIST UGLY MORON PEDOPHILE". Below and to the left of this sign, a black sign with white lettering: "F*CK TRUMP"
Color. Night. A silver minivan. The facing-side, rear passenger door is open. In the open doorway stand a U.S. marshal and a Border Patrol agent. Each is wearing a stupid vest and a holstered firearm. The marshal's back is turned. The Borger Patrol agent is turned to the side, apparently speaking to the marshal. The marshal holds a two-year-old with dark hair.
B&W. Night. A suburban street. Two federal agents in stupid vests stand in front of a TN state trooper SUV that is lit up for an emergency. Two ordinary citizens stand to the left.
Color. A four-image collage. Top right quadrant: Screenshot of an ACLU social media post that consists of a quotation is bold, which type on a dark brown background: " 'I want agents who are ignoring the Constitution to know that someone is paying attention and making a photographic record.' D.M. On facing retribution for filming law and immigration enforcement." In the upper-right quadrant: At night, a DEA agent staring at the photographer through something like a small spyglass or a rifle scope. In the lower left quadrant: An agent behind a blue truck staring at the photographer through binoculars. In the lower right quadrant: Two HSI agents. One has his back turned, showing HSI clearly on his stupid vest (In fact, he's looking at the photos of the photographer that his phone just made). The other has his cell phone camera raised and directed at the photographer.
Color. Day. A city park. Green trees and the blue top of a pop-up pavillion in the background. On the right, standing in profile, facing to the left, a man in a back cap and a tightly checked red-and-white shirt. His downstage arm holds up a white sign on which is black and red lettering: "NO ICE; NO WAR"
Color. Day. A sidewalk approaching a major intersection from downstage center towards the midground center. City street on the right. The noses of cars, parked in a lot, on the left. A crowd of people on the sidewalk, especially pressed together at the corner in the middle distance. A couple of large USA flags. A Ukraine flag in the upper left. Just right of center, on the sidewalk in the foreground, a person dressed in black, facing towards the intersection. The person holds up the upper corner of a Transgender Pride Flag, which drifts down and left, towards the sidewalk.
B&W. Day. Grassy plaza between public buildings in a brick, neocolonial style. A concrete walk cuts through the grass, from downstage center towards right of center in the distance. The grass is covered with wet leaves. The sky is gray and sunless. In the near foreground on the left, his back to the viewer, a man in a coat has his right hand to his mouth, calling out to a small crowd of people in winter coats, approaching on the walk. Some of the crowd hold signs. "NO HATE, NO FEAR, IMMIGRANTS ARE WELCOME HERE"; "STOP ICE"; "WEAKER, POORER, SICKER: IT'S TRUMP'S AMERICA"
Color. Day. A city park. Blue sky in the background. A small crowd of people. At center, a sign, held up at the end of a stick, by someone in the crowd. The sign is white. As a title, at the top in red letters: "NO KINGS," beside a simply-drawn crown with two red lines crossing over it. Below the title is a grid of six frames in two rows of three. Each frame is a different image of Little Prince Pumpkin. Fromtop left to bottom right: (1) LPP amid stacks of money and saying, "Wanna buy a watch?" - "NO CROWN FOR CON + GRIFTER" (2) LPP as a clown: "NO CROWN FOR A PEDOPHILE" (3) LPP kneeling at the ends of marionette strings held by Putin: "NO CROWN FOR PUTIN'S PUPPET" (4) LPP as an evil clown: "NO CROWN FOR A RAPIST" (5) LPP With devil horns on a background of flames: "NO CROWN FOR LIAR LIAR" (6) LPP standing among white-clad klansmen at night with a burning cross in the background: "NO CROWN FOR A RACIST HATER"
Color. Day. A small crowd gathered in a church parking lot. Out of focus in the middle distance, to the right of center, a woman behind a lectern and microphone. In the near foreground, turned toward the lectern and away from the viewer, two elderly people. The man on the left is a bit hunched over from age. The woman on the right is bundled in a black coat. To the right of her white hair is a sign she holds in her right hand: "PROTEST IS PATRIOTISM."
Color. Day. Looking directly up Beale across BB King Blvd. Crowds and bars and shops on both sides. Low, near foreground, center, and stretching like rolling hills into the distance at the center of the frame: a rainbow flag that's almost as wide as Beale Street, carried by volunteers walking on both sides.Nearest, in the lower left corner, a baby in a backpack carrier.
Color. Day. The plaza in front of the National Civil Rights Museum. A crowd of people with signs. Two signs, just left and right of center, turned especially to the viewer. Both are white letters on black background. On the left: "AMERICAN REGIME CHANGE." On the right: "Freedom of speech is a right, not a crime." In the back ground, at center, framed by these two signs and etched sharply into the NCRM's wall: "NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM."
Color. Day. The front yard and driveway of an unexceptional suburban house, zoomed from a long way off. A gray sedan parked almost in profile in the driveway, at center. Three men standing around the back end of the car. They all wear sleeve masks. One sleeve mask is fashioned as a USA flag. One of the masked men looks towards the camera and holds up a semi-transparent plastic bag, about the size of a basketball.
Color. Evening. A suburban lane, running from downstage left towards the upper right, in the distance. Five or six unmarked SUVs and trucks of federal agents split on both sides of the lane. A blue truck belonging to federal agents nosed into a residential driveway on the far side of the street. At the left, on the far side of the street, a cluster of federal agents and Shelby County Sheriffs, all wearing those stupid vests. Maybe twenty feet away, on the far right of the frame, a man in red shorts, walking on the sidewalk.
Color. Evening. A suburban lane, running from downstage left towards the upper right, in the distance. Five or six unmarked SUVs and trucks of federal agents split on both sides of the lane. A blue truck belonging to federal agents nosed into a residential driveway on the far side of the street. Just to the left of center, on the far side of the street, a cluster of federal agents and Shelby County Sheriffs, all wearing those stupid vests. Collectively, they are all looking across the street towards the right side of the frame. On the right, the upper body of another agent, wearing a sleeve mask and a white cap, is just visible between two of the unmarked vehicles parked on that side of the lane. That agent is also facing to the right of the frame. On the far right—the thing at which all of the agents are staring—is a woman standing on the sidewalk. She is facing the agent in the mask and she is tipping forward a bit, in the act of giving him a piece of her mind.
Color. Day. Expansive suburban green space. Green grass expanding every direction in the lower half. A couple of buildings in the distance. Blue sky and wisps of white clouds in the upper half. A bit in the background, just left of center: three people talking to each other and looking at papers. One of the people wears an orange vest. In the near foreground on the far left: A wood telephone pole, running vertically. On the right: A person in a pink jacket and denim jeans holding a white sign with black lettering: "NO WAR - NO ICE - NO TRUMP"
Color. Day. A city park. Green trees in the far background. Out of focus, in the very near foreground, upper bodies of two people, one on the left and one on the right, in dark clothing. In sharp focus at center, visible in the narrow gap between the two bodies in the foreground: A person wearing a body-length taco costume, a mask resembling Little Prince Pumpkin with a Pinocchio-like nose, and a red cap. In one hand, the person waves a small, upside-down USA flag.
Color. Day. A freeway overpass, extending from downstage left foreground to just right of center in the distance. Blue sky above. Tall pylons and electrical bales on the far right. At center, angled sharply from near foreground towards the distance on the right: a large, banner-like sign, black with white block letters, held along the overpass rail by several people so that vehicles passing underneath the overpass can see it: "NO WAR"
Color. Day. A suburban street, crossing the lower quarter, horizontally. A public park behind the street. Grass. Some large trees. In the near foreground, center: A man with white hair, wearing an army-green shirt and glasses, holins a white sign above his head and staring at the viewer. The lettering on the sign is multi-colored: "VETERANS AGAINST TRUMPIS DEFEND DEMOCRACY". Just to the left of the man's head, in the distance across the street, a woman holding a USA flag on a pole. The flag is affixed to the pole upside-down.
Color. Day. A crowd of people filling an urban street, moving from downstage left towards upstage right. A multi-level parking garage in the background. People in the crowd are passing around a police car at the center of the frame. A police officer stands beside the car, facing towards the crowd that is passing by without regarding him. Most people in the crowd hold signs: "Bitter is the taste of Silence on a coward's tongue"; FUCK ICE"; "I <heart> NAPS BUT I STAY WOKE"; "STOP TRUTH DECAY"; "If Melania doesn't have to live with him, WHY SHOULD WE?"; "HEALTH-CARE NOT WARFARE" "ICE OUT"
Color. Day. Three panels showing, from left to right, an HSI goon stepping onto a sidewalk and approaching the viewer. The goon wears one of those stupid vests, on which 'POLICE HSI" is written in yellow letters. The goon's left arm is tattooed, sleeve-style, from the wrist to at least the elbow, as is the custom among goons. The goon has a neatly trimmed beard, which is unusual among goons. His long hair is tightly pulled and clasped at the back of his head. He has large lobe studs in each ear. One stud is gray. The other is black.
Color. Day. A parking lot. Two large cars in the lower foreground corners. A large SUV parked crossways in the background. Four me around the center, in the space between the cars, all slightly turned away.Two men furthest away are in conversation with each other. A man on the left, walking away, wears a black version of those stupid vests, on the back of which is white, block lettering: "HUD-OIG". The man carries a water bottle in his downstage hand. A firearm is strapped to his upstage hip.
Color. Day. The street running past the front of the National Civil Rights Museum. The NCRM stands in the background on the right, its etched identifier above a diverse crowd of people approaching on the street. Nearly everyone in the crowd holds a sign: "HANDS OFF OUR VOTE"; "D9 4E"; "NO JIM CROW MAPS"; "STAY FLY & TRIPLE MEMPHIS VOTING POWER"; "MEMPHIS DEMANDS A VOICE"; "GOP = KKK"; "BE BRAVE! DON'T BEND THE KNEE - DEFEND DEMOCRACY". In the background on the left, the Lorraine Motel's marquee floats above the crowd.