"Policing is a unique profession and you carry out your duties uniquely well - every day of the year. I know the sacrifices you make, including being away from your own families on holidays like this," he said.

The large-scale parade proved to be safe and secure except a group of demonstrators protesting U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration policies, briefly blocking the parade route before cops removed them.

The protesters are young people who came into the country undocumented, but were allowed to stay, according to the Seed Project.

"I am doing this to bring dignity to our undocumented community, without fear. I want to bring awareness that while some families are together, others are being torn apart," one of the protesters said.

The Trump administration ordered the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in September. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in October announced the program would be canceled in March. The U.S. Congress is now considering the measure and debating whether it should be included in a pending budget bill.

However, Beth Skwarecki, a freelance health and science writer based in Pittsburgh, the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, lamented the negative impact of the commercialism on the holiday tradition.

"What if I told you you don't have to watch bloated characters float by in a gigantic display of commercialism?" Skwarecki wrote. "The whole parade is just one giant commercial, and you know what I do when commercials come on TV? I skip them."

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