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70 000 Join No Kings Protest Marching From Capitol Hill To Downtown

Bonisiwe Shabane
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70 000 join no kings protest marching from capitol hill to downtown

Jun 14, 2025, 11:30 AM | Updated: 11:04 pm The "No Kings" rally at Cal Anderson Park has marched all the way to the Space Needle. (Photo: Scott Carty, KIRO Newsradio) Approximately 70,000 people joined the “No Kings” protest in Cal Anderson Park before they marched to the Space Needle and then to the Seattle Center downtown. The Cal Anderson gathering became one of the largest protests in Seattle’s history, The Seattle Times estimated. It was just one of as many as 50 “No Kings” rallies that occurred throughout the Puget Sound Saturday.

They were meant to run opposite of President Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., according to Axios Seattle. Saturday is also the president’s 79th birthday. Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of Seattle on Saturday, capping a week of protests and growing tension over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies and threats to send ICE to “democrat... Saturday’s protest was one of more than 2,000 “No Kings” rallies held across the country, timed to coincide with the military parade Trump scheduled for the Army’s 250th anniversary and his own birthday. Similar protests were held across Washington — from cities like Spokane and Olympia to smaller towns like Walla Walla. Attendees argued that the president has overstepped the Constitution and wielded presidential authority like a king.

In Seattle, marchers gathered at Cal Anderson Park before heading to Seattle Center. By early afternoon, an unbroken line of protesters stretched from Capitol Hill to the Space Needle, filling the width of the street and covering more than a mile and a half. Officials estimated that more than 70,000 people attended, making the “No Kings” protest among the largest in Seattle history. “We are here to take back our country from any and all pretenders who want to be king,” said U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, speaking to the crowd at Cal Anderson.

“We are here to stand up to the tyrants and their enablers who want to bend the nation to them.” The “No Kings” rallies had been planned for some time, but took on increased significance over the past week and a half after Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids fueled unrest in Los Angeles. Trump responded by deploying troops to the city, an act local officials said only escalated the tension. Updated on: June 15, 2025 / 7:55 PM EDT / CBS/AP Demonstrators crowded into streets, parks and plazas across the U.S. on Saturday to protest President Trump, marching through downtowns and blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights.

Organizers of the "No Kings" demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. Governors across the U.S. had urged calm and vowed no tolerance for violence, while some mobilized the National Guard ahead of marchers gathering. Confrontations were isolated. But one person was transported to a Salt Lake City hospital Saturday night with life-threatening injuries after a shooting during that city's protest, officials said. Salt Lake City police said the shooting was "possibly associated with the demonstration."

Huge, boisterous crowds marched in New York, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, some behind "no kings" banners. Protesters fanned across Seattle as part of the national No Kings demonstrations opposing President Donald Trump's immigration raids and ICE policies. No arrests made as of early evening in Seattle, per Sgt. Patrick Michaud. How many people protested in Seattle today? The Seattle Times says more than 70,000.

We know that the main protest extended about two miles, packed with people. This does not include the protesters in other parts of the city and along Aurora Avenue North. Sgt. Michaud says his best guess is tens of thousands of people showed up. Our reporter has seen only six police officers today -- all part of a team that wears polo shirts and talks with protesters, rather than be dressed in combat gear. These cops are part of POET -- that stands for Police Outreach Engagement Team.

They are "trained to speak with organizers and the community before protests, aiming for facilitation, not confrontation," according to the police department's blotter blog. Large crowds of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the U.S. Saturday for " No Kings " demonstrations decrying what participants see as the government's swift drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. People carrying signs with slogans such as "Nothing is more patriotic than protesting" or "Resist Fascism" packed into New York City's Times Square and rallied by the thousands in parks in Boston, Atlanta and... Demonstrators marched through Washington and downtown Los Angeles and picketed outside capitols in several Republican-led states, a courthouse in Billings, Montana, and at hundreds of smaller public spaces. Trump's Republican Party disparaged the demonstrations as "Hate America" rallies, but in many places the events looked more like a street party.

There were marching bands, huge banners with the U.S. Constitution's "We The People" preamble that people could sign, and demonstrators wearing inflatable costumes, particularly frogs, which have emerged as a sign of resistance in Portland, Oregon. It was the third mass mobilization since Trump's return to the White House and came against the backdrop of a government shutdown that not only has closed federal programs and services but is testing... In Washington, Iraq War Marine veteran Shawn Howard said he had never participated in a protest before but was motivated to show up because of what he sees as the Trump administration's "disregard for... cities are "un-American" and alarming signs of eroding democracy. This story has been updated to include new estimates of protest crowd size.

Demonstrators filled the streets of U.S. cities and towns in coordinated "No Kings" events, billed as a "national day of peaceful protest," in the largest outpouring of opposition to Trump's policies since he returned to power in January. The mostly calm marches, organized under the theme that no individual is above the law, coincided with the day President Donald Trump hosted a military parade on the streets of the nation's capital. At least one demonstration, about 70 miles from Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia, was met with violence when a man intentionally drove an SUV through a crowd of departing protesters, striking at least one... Police in Los Angeles hit protesters with batons, fired tear gas and ordered a large crowd in downtown to disperse; authorities said they were responding to people throwing "rocks, bricks, bottles," and "fireworks" at... Activists in some areas braved wet weather to raise signs and chant slogans.

supporting the rights of immigrants and criticizing what they view as a power grab by the Trump administration. Roughly 2,500 No Kings rallies are expected across the country today as demonstrators gather to protest President Donald Trump's policies. Coverage on this live blog has ended. Please click here for the latest updates. Protesters rally during the No Kings national day of protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday. Kerem Yucel / AFP / Getty Images

Crowds gathered today in cities across the United States — and overseas — for No Kings rallies in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration and to call for the defense of First Amendment rights. Protesters from Los Angeles to New York — including in Chicago, Washington, D.C, and Austin, Texas — flooded into streets chanting, marching and waving homemade signs, including some that proclaimed “We want all of... Marc Levy, Associated Press Marc Levy, Associated Press Claudia Lauer, Associated Press Claudia Lauer, Associated Press Jim Vertuno, Associated Press Jim Vertuno, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks and plazas across the U.S.

on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump, marching through downtowns and small towns, blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights. Organizers of the "No Kings" demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. Governors across the U.S. had urged calm and vowed no tolerance for violence, while some mobilized the National Guard ahead of marchers gathering.

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