No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

Demonstrators successful Los Angeles marched alongside an inflatable Donald Trump babe dressed successful a diaper.

As President Donald Trump kicked disconnected a day subject parade connected the streets of Washington, DC, what's estimated arsenic astir 2,000 events were held crossed the US and beyond - protesting Trump and Elon Musk's evisceration of authorities services, an unprecedented crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and countless different actions from the medication successful its archetypal 5 months. Held nether the rubric "No Kings" (with, arsenic you'll see, 1 conspicuous exception), they're the latest successful respective wide protests, pursuing April's Hands Off events and a question of Tesla Takedown demonstrations successful March.

As The Verge's Tina Nguyen went to downtown DC, we besides sent reporters to No Kings demonstrations spanning the country, positive a "No Tyrants" lawsuit successful the UK. How would they unfold aft promises of "very dense force" against protesters successful the capital, aft the deployment of thousands of subject troops in a move a justice has bluntly called illegal, and aft promises to "liberate" the metropolis of Los Angeles from its "burdensome leadership" by section elected officials? What astir the overnight killing of a Minnesota Democratic authorities typical and her husband, and the shooting of …

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