Bellingham and Mount Vernon students join national gun protest marchers

By Joe Teehan March 25, 2018 6:32 am

KGMI(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Demonstrators cheer during a "March for Our Lives" protest for gun legislation and school safety Saturday, March 24, 2018. Students and activists across the country planned events Saturday in conjunction with a Washington March spearheaded by teens from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where over a dozen people were killed in February.

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BELLINGHAM, Wash. – A crowd Bellingham police estimated at 3000 rallied at Bellingham City Hall Saturday morning, joining in the national March For Our Lives student movement protesting gun violence.

Aerial footage over Mount Vernon showed about 100 marchers there.

There were also marches in Seattle, Portland and Salem, Oregon.

Over 800,000 students rallied in Washington, DC.

About 800 marches were planned across the U.S. and on several other continents.