A massive number of protesters railed against President Donald Trump, marching down Seventh Avenue in Manhattan for over four hours on March 28 in the third \u201cNo Kings\u201d day protest.<\/p>\n
Protestors chanted and carried signs proclaiming \u201cNo War, No Throne, No Kings\u201d and \u201cIce Out of NYC\u201d in a line that stretched over a mile from Central Park South to 34th Street.<\/p>\n
NYS Attorney General Letitia James and NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams teamed up with actor Robert De Niro and activist Rev. Al Sharpton, marching behind a banner that read, \u201cWe protect our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Straus News also spotted Michael Cohen, a one-time Trump ally turned critic. Cohen previously served as a lawyer to Trump before he was sentenced for his role in hush money payments to a woman alleged to have had an affair with Trump. While he recorded the rally from the sidewalk, he greeted those who recognized him and expressed his amazement at the size of the crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to see where New York was at, where America is at, and I think 400,000 people are making a very strong statement at this moment in time,\u201d Cohen said to Straus News, referring to organizers\u2019 estimates<\/a> of the city\u2019s protest.<\/p>\n This statement was both apparent figuratively and literally, carried on the thousands of painted, handwritten, and printed signs as the demonstrators marched towards 34th Street. Other protestors held wooden spoons, a giant banner of the U.S. Constitution, and American flags, some upside down in a symbol of international distress. Several protestors carried their children on their shoulders, an image of a slowly shifting demographic of the age of the attendees, which appeared to have a greater percentage of young protestors than in past demonstrations.<\/p>\n The Trump administration dismissed the demonstrations, with one White House spokesperson addressing the protests as \u201cTrump Derangement Therapy Sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n Many of the demonstrators said they had marched in the previous \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations, but the ranks were swelled by people turning out for the first time. Taylor Smith, one of those attending her first \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest, said she was joining the rally with her boyfriend and his family.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can only do so much behind a screen,\u201d Smith said. \u201cActually getting out in person means so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n Some protesters traveled from other cities and states to be a part of Manhattan\u2019s march. One protester, Elizabeth, came into the city from Connecticut. After marching in the previous two rallies there, her friends insisted on coming to Manhattan.<\/p>\n \u201cIt really is so energizing and exciting to be around so many people who are calm and walking,\u201d Elizabeth said. \u201cWe\u2019re all in the same boat.\u201d<\/p>\n At times, the influx of people reduced the speed of the march to a standstill. On one block, a protestor held up a sign that said, \u201cYou know it\u2019s bad when New Yorkers are walking this slow.\u201d<\/p>\n By 4 p.m., the listed end time for the Manhattan march on the \u201cNo Kings\u201d website, the tail of the crowd was still backed up to 50th Street. At 6 p.m., the NYPD announced the protests had dispersed, and traffic closures had been lifted. Police<\/a> reported the demonstrations across all five boroughs closed city streets but were peaceful with zero arrests. In Los Angeles, more than 70 people were arrested, <\/a>and police fired tear gas and pepper balls into a crowd that failed to disperse.<\/p>\n Since the third \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally in October last year, much has changed, including the Congressionally-mandated release of the Epstein files, the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis as part of the ICE immigrant crackdown, and the start of the Iran War in late February.<\/p>\n Organizers claimed more than 8 million people turned up throughout over 3,300 events in all 50 states and several cities abroad. With this estimation, organizers said it was the largest single day of demonstrations in U.S. history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive number of protesters railed against President Donald Trump, marching down Seventh Avenue in Manhattan for over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6811,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-180359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-7th-avenue","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}