‘86 47’ slogan tied to James Comey resurfaces at May Day protests across US

The "86 47" slogan made infamous by erstwhile FBI Director James Comey was seen connected signs astatine aggregate May Day protests.

Photos captured by Fox News Digital successful New York City and Los Angeles showed respective demonstrators holding signs with the numbers "86 47," including 1 with the message, "86 the full regime." 

Comey was indicted this week for a 2nd clip by the Justice Department, with charges appearing to beryllium related to his May 2025 Instagram photograph of an "86 47" ammunition enactment connected a beach. 

In the slang often utilized successful the work industry, to "86" thing means to eject, cancel oregon get escaped of it. And President Donald Trump is the 47th president.

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An activistic carries a motion with "86 47" written connected it during a May Day march successful Los Angeles, Calif., connected Friday, May 1, 2026. (Fox News Digital)

Comey is charged with "knowingly and willfully making a menace to instrumentality the beingness of, oregon inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States and knowingly and willfully transmitting a connection successful interstate and overseas commerce that contained a menace to termination President Donald Trump," according to the indictment. 

Both charges, released Tuesday by the DOJ, transportation up to 10 years successful prison. The determination follows a question of disapproval from Republicans and Trump medication officials who viewed Comey's station arsenic a veiled threat. 

Activists enactment successful a May Day march successful New York City, Friday, May 1, 2026. (Fox News Digital)

May Day Strong, which was the main organizer of Friday's demonstrations, described them arsenic "workers, students, and families" rallying, marching and taking enactment "across the state to request a federation that puts workers implicit billionaires, with galore refusing concern arsenic accustomed done No School. No Work. No Shopping."

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An activistic carries a motion with "86 47" written connected it astatine the May Day march successful Los Angeles, Calif., connected Friday, May 1, 2026. (LB for Fox News Digital)

May Day’s roots hint backmost to the 19th century, erstwhile Marxists, socialists and labour unions called for a time of strikes successful Paris and aboriginal became a nationalist vacation successful the Soviet Union aft the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. 

While May Day began arsenic an effort to support idiosyncratic rights, the big-money governmental operations of labour unions contiguous springiness the protestation a partisan bias that is focused precise overmuch contiguous connected anti-Trump rhetoric, critics say. Approximately 600 groups with $2 cardinal successful an progressive yearly revenues were slated to big an estimated 6,000 events nationwide for pro-socialist May Day demonstrations connected Friday, a Fox News Digital probe found.

Comey’s May 2025 Instagram station showed the numbers "86 47" arranged successful shells connected a beach.

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"Cool ammunition enactment connected my formation walk…," Comey captioned the post. It was aboriginal deleted. 

Fox News’ David Spunt, Bill Mears and Jake Gibson, arsenic good arsenic Fox News Digital's Asra Nomani, Louis Casiano and Preston Mizell contributed to this report.