Millions of protestors gathered across the US on Saturday across thousands of events to protest against
Donald Trump’s administration in a planned series of events called “No Kings”.
Organized by a coalition of groups, the demonstrations were largely peaceful,
though they occurred on the same day Minnesota lawmakers were shot,
and one killed,
in political violence,
and just a week after the federal government ordered military to descend on Los Angeles streets to quell protests there.
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