Mayor Wu's plan to remake White Stadium through a partnership with a pro women's soccer team could play a pivotal role in the mayoral race.

About two dozen opponents with the Franklin Park Defenders group attended the morning rally, blasting Mayor Wu and lamenting the beginning of demolition on the stadium and the downing of trees in the area.

Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft is calling on Mayor Michelle Wu to “immediately halt” the razing of White Stadium that began last Friday, until the courts can rule on the city’s public-private plan to rehab it for a new pro women’s soccer team.