{"id":245982,"date":"2026-04-01T01:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:39:44","slug":"no-kings-protest-takes-over-downtown-bakersfield-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245982\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Kings\u2019 protest takes over downtown Bakersfield Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Protesters in Bakersfield over the weekend joined the millions across the country in another national \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dozens of protesters on Saturday marched outside the Kern County courthouse on Truxtun Avenue in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They came dressed up with signs and a message of opposition to the current stances of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSo basically, we wanted to come and show our support for the people who can\u2019t be here and stand up for what we believe in. And we\u2019re not going to stay silent. I feel that is complicity with what is going on. And, I like this one because I brought my kids and it feels the safest,\u201d Megan Jones, a protester said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also in attendance were members of the Working Families Party and other political groups hoping to gain a foothold in the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This was the third major \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest planned nationwide, with no details yet on if another one will be planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Protesters in Bakersfield over the weekend joined the millions across the country in another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,328,109987,2058,10718],"class_list":["post-245982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kget","tag-megan-jones","tag-protest","tag-working-families-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}