“No Kings” demonstrations marched in hundreds of cities to protest what organizers describe as President Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda, including recent immigration raids that have rattled communities across the country.
“The corruption has gone too far,” protest organizers wrote on their website. “No thrones. No crowns. No kings.”
Hundreds of thousands of people participated in the demonstrations, but no events were scheduled in Washington, D.C., where a military parade for the Army’s 250th anniversary is underway, coinciding with the president’s birthday.
The protests so far have not involved the kind of mass arrests and civil disobedience seen in Los Angeles over the last week, though there have been sporadic security threats, including protesters hit with vehicles in San Francisco and Virginia, as well as a threat against lawmakers in Texas that prompted the evacuation of the state capitol building.
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