Thousands gathered in Los Angeles with handmade signs, Colonial costumes and riffs on drag queens, turning the anti-Trump demonstration into a creative spectacle of resistance.

The demonstrations come on the heels of protests flaring up around the country over federal immigration enforcement raids that began last week and Trump ordering National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles where protesters blocked a freeway and set cars on fire.

But police in Los Angeles, where protests over federal immigration enforcement raids erupted a week earlier and sparked demonstrations across the cou

The event follows days of protests against the trump administration’s immigration policies and deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles.