Local pro-Trump group protests peacefully in East Memphis
Local Trump supporters hold a rally on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at Poplar and Perkins, on the day that Congress convenes to accept the vote for president from the Electoral college. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The protest of several dozen along the Poplar Corridor came before the aborted attempt in Washington D.C. to certify the Electoral College results that ended in violence.
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