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A spokesman for D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services estimated the crowd at "in excess of 75,000" people. Local and federal law enforcement authorities don't provide crowd estimates.
1.6 miles according to google earth and it took an hour and a half not three hours, march started at 11:30am and the "festivities began at 1:00pm. Considering there were some very young children, people in wheelchairs etc I'm not surprised it too 1.5 hours.
do you really think "in excess of 75,000 people" backs up your assertion that there were over 200,000?
i've got news for you: it contradicts your assertion. the phrase indicates that the number is over 75,000 but not by much. if it was triple that amount, he would have said something like "in excess of 200,000".
1.6 miles according to google earth and it took an hour and a half not three hours, march started at 11:30am and the "festivities began at 1:00pm. Considering there were some very young children, people in wheelchairs etc I'm not surprised it too 1.5 hours.
According to the reports on the ground, it took 3 hours. The Park Police even told them to start early due to the massive turnout - they couldn't all fit in the Plaza.
Of course, we should believe you? That's the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
We spoke with Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, who said that the local government no longer provides official crowd estimates because they can become politicized. That said, on the morning of Sept. 12, Piringer unofficially told one reporter that he thought between 60,000 and 75,000 people had shown up.
"It was in no way an official estimate," he said.
We asked Piringer whether there were enough protesters to fill the National Mall, as depicted in the photograph.
Prove it, there's no names mentioned in your link.
Maybe he has revised his estimate. Who knows.
What we DO know, the crowd numbered in the hundreds of thousands. No doubt.
The proof is all there - pics, video, reports on the ground, schematic.
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