{"id":7843,"date":"2025-10-19T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7843\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:44:11","slug":"several-no-kings-protests-take-place-across-pittsburgh-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7843\/","title":{"rendered":"Several &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests take place across Pittsburgh area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/no-kings-trump-rallies-protests-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests<\/a> took place across the county and city on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Greensburg, Uniontown, and other areas across the Pittsburgh region saw many come out to protest Trump administration policies that they say are threatening the fabric of American democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest protest, however, happened in Downtown Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first protests began in McCandless, Allegheny County, where hundreds gathered to protest the Trump administration&#8217;s policies on everything from abortion to ICE raids.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds also attended a late afternoon protest in Allegheny Commons. The biggest gathering was in front of the City-County Building.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands listened to various speakers and music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not everyone here agrees on everything, but they agree we should be working for a better America that works for everybody,&#8221; said Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato.<\/p>\n<p>Much of their discontent focused on President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have a big baby who throws tantrums constantly. This kind of speaks for itself,&#8221; said a protestor identified as Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every day is worse than before. (President Trump) needs to go. He&#8217;s terrible; he&#8217;s the worst thing that has ever happened to America,&#8221; fellow protestor Richards Betters said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the numbers, county and city officials say there were no arrests related to the protest.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those taking part in Saturday&#8217;s actions say they hope it opens people&#8217;s eyes to what they say is a step-by-step attempt to turn America from a democracy into something else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I don&#8217;t do something to resist, it&#8217;s dark times and dark days for America, and personally, I just had to do something to get through every damn day,&#8221; Betters added.<\/p>\n<p>City and county officials say that while Saturday&#8217;s activities were peaceful, a handful of those involved did suffer from some medical issues, with the biggest being dehydration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests took place across the county and city on Saturday. Greensburg, Uniontown, and other areas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34,73,75,74,50,4525,723],"class_list":["post-7843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-donald-trump","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-politics","tag-protest","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}