The march ended at Pearl Square, a focal point of the demonstrations, where Mr. Mushaima arrived in the late evening to address the crowd.
Several hundred monks then walked through downtown Yangon to the Sule Pagoda, another site of the demonstrations, where truckloads of soldiers were seen arriving Tuesday.
Tweep Paola Rebeiz posted a picture of surgical masks she used during the demonstrations where tear gas and water cannon were used on protesters to show their usefulness during the sandstorm.
"We shouldn't be giving the police more power," said Vincent Yettito, 52, who brought his entire family to the demonstration, where the crowd chanted "U.S.A".
Husband and wife music stars Jay-Z and Beyoncé met Ms Fulton at the demonstration, where posters bore the words: "Boycott Florida".
He said of the policing of the demonstration: "There was a general feeling that it would be robust policing, not just going and picking on people, but robust as in keeping the demonstration where it should be".
A few days after speaking with Safi, I went to Charikar to meet with the deputy chief of police, who showed me a video of the demonstration where Safi was shot.
The law enables the police to place conditions on a demonstration in the area, restricting how many people attend the demonstration, where it can be held, how long it can be held for and "the number and size of banners used".
"We need the legislature to focus on what matters: education and bringing the skills into Texas that we need," JJ Davis, vice president of global communications for Dell, said at the demonstration, where she spoke on behalf of the company.
Two decades later, on October 2, 2002 it was this core group of activists that worked together to convene the nation's first rally against George Bush's impending invasion of Iraq - the demonstration where Barack Obama declared his opposition to Bush's "stupid war --a distinguishing position that helped propel him to the presidency six years later.
But the A.F.L.-C.I.O., among other groups, was greatly emboldened by the Seattle demonstrations, where the protests led by union members "shifted the debate about globalization," John J. Sweeney, the president of the union federation, said this week in New Orleans.
