As President Donald Trump rallied the troops to Washington, DC on June 14—the date of the US Military’s 250th anniversary, Flag Day, and his birthday—thousands and thousands of his constituents joined within the nationwide “No Kings” march.
It was a conflicting, polar day in America. In a single metropolis, a parade costing tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} was full with robotic navy canines strolling down the road, the president being serenaded by a crowd singing Completely happy Birthday, and 1000’s of Military service members marching in rows. In a metropolis simply North of DC, on the flagship No Kings rally in Philadelphia, an estimated 80,000 individuals referred to as out chants which have grow to be acquainted since 2016, like “Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Donald Trump has bought to go!” and ones befitting the protest, like “Let freedom ring! We don’t desire a king!”
Almost 3,000 miles away in Los Angeles, police shot stun grenades and rubber bullets, and used tear fuel, on a bunch of demonstrators protesting the Trump administration’s assaults on immigrant communities. The offensive from police who claimed they have been trying to disperse the gang got here hours earlier than the 8 o’clock curfew that a part of downtown was positioned below by Mayor Okaren Bass.
Protestors have been rallying in Los Angeles all week amid the Trump administration’s rounding up of immigrants within the metropolis and their subsequent strikes to name within the Nationwide Guard and lively-duty Marines to quell the pro-immigrant, anti-ICE demonstrations.
Under are simply a few of the pictures that illustrate what this one divisive day within the US seemed like.
Robotic Canines, Trump, and Tanks
