First photo: Sign-wavers line Kaahumanu Avenue in Kahului Saturday afternoon during the Maui portion of the event billed as the Worldwide Rally for Freedom. About 100 people participated in the demonstration and about 60 attended a two-hour rally afterward. A news release for the event said it was held in 40 countries, and among the issues it sought to draw attention to were: “excessive and unlawful coronavirus measures,” “unreasonable and tyrannical suppression of dissent by police” and “bodily autonomy violated by mask mandates.” The Maui Police Department handed out two citations for mask violations and said in a statement on Sunday that “most in attendance were compliant, either with wearing masks, or eating and drinking a beverage while sign-waving, and maintaining six feet of distance. Those that were not six feet apart related being from the same household with less than three people.”

Second photo: Maui police officers Dylan McLellan-Puaa (right) and Lehua Souza talk with rally attendees after giving Jamal Strom (center) a ticket for refusing to put on a mask Saturday. Strom said he has received several tickets for noncompliance. Another ticket on Saturday was given to Steven Forman of Haiku. “Since the coronavirus mandate is not an official law, there is no law that I am breaking by not wearing a mask,” Forman said. While holding a sign reading, “Question the media,” Ilse Menger said, “The real toll of the virus is the people that lost their whole livelihoods.”