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Hello and
welcome to the Guardian’s coverage of the protests due to take place across the
country on Saturday, dubbed ‘No Kings’ in protest at the Trump administration.
Leaders
of the movement estimated during a press conference on Thursday that there will
be more than 2,500 demonstrations throughout the US. “We do not expect there to
be any need for the National Guard to be deployed, but if the Trump
administration attempts to do that as a way to intimidate peaceful protests, we
are prepared for that,” they added.
Leaders
of the coalition also said that they don’t anticipate anything other than a
peaceful protest, and don’t currently have any information that would suggest
any outside agitator groups are planning to disrupt the coordinated
demonstrations.
Millions
of people turned out for similar protests on Saturday 14 June as Donald Trump
held a military parade in the streets of Washington DC.
The
protests took place at about 2,100 sites nationwide, from big cities to small
towns. A coalition of more than 100 groups joined together to plan the
protests, which are committed to a principle of nonviolence.
No Kings
organizers estimated the day’s events drew millions of people, in all 50 states
and to some cities abroad. These included more than 200,000 in New York and
over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for
their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400
people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.
The
protests were largely peaceful, though some – in Los Angeles and Portland –
were later deemed unlawful assembly by law enforcement and met with teargas.
The tenor
of the day was also marked by political violence. There were two early morning
shootings of two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, one of whom was killed
along with her husband, in what local officials called a politically motivated
attack. The state’s police and governor cautioned people to not attend
demonstrations across the state “out of an abundance of caution”.
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