{"id":10180,"date":"2025-10-18T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10180\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:42:10","slug":"scenes-from-the-no-kings-protest-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10180\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes From the No Kings Protest in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRain might have thinned the crowd early, but it didn’t stop the protest at the Dallas No Kings event on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Patrick Williams<\/p>\n

Depending on your political point of view, Mother Nature might have been weeping in sympathy, or God might have been chastising protesters when the skies opened up with a downpour on the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest<\/a> that packed Pacific Plaza in downtown Dallas on Saturday afternoon. Whatever the case, the steady rain didn\u2019t dampen the cheers and chants of the crowd as speakers decried ICE tactics, immigration crackdowns<\/a> and divisions President Donald Trump\u2019s policies are opening in the nation.<\/p>\n

Arlington, Flower Mound, Frisco, Fort Worth, Garland, McKinney, and other cities in North Texas held protests on Saturday, joining some 2,600 communities<\/a> around the country in an event to denounce President Donald Trump and policies they say have led him to act more like a monarch than a U.S. president.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are here to say that our faiths stand for compassion, love and mercy \u2026 leaders must bring us together,\u201d the Rev. Eric Folkerth told the crowd. Folkerth is one of the leaders of the Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response, an interfaith group including Christian, Muslim and Jewish clergy that organizes vigils outside Dallas\u2019 ICE facility. He called on protesters to pray for ICE agents who are \u201charming their souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE raids and immigration were a major target of the speakers, who offered solidarity with Chicago and Portland, Oregon, two Democratic-led cities that are in court fight efforts by the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops, including some from Texas, to assist ICE. Police violence, the government shutdown and attacks on federal workers and repeated calls to organize and vote were also on the speakers\u2019 agendas.<\/p>\n

When the rain started to fall about 40 minutes into the rally\u2019s three-hour scheduled runtime, a sea of umbrellas opened up, and anti-Trump signs were flipped horizontally for cover, while some members of the crowd sheltered under overhangs in nearby buildings and, a sea of umbrellas opened up and anti-Trump signs were flipped horizontal, while some of the crowd sheltered under overhangs in nearby buildings and in a neighboring parking garage. Soaked or not, the event continued. Here are some photos:<\/p>\n

\"ManCriticism of ICE raids was widespread at the Dallas No Kings protest, both at the podium and among the packed crowd.<\/p>\n

\"ManWe\u2019re not sure if that\u2019s a dinosaur or Bowser from Mario Bros. Memes about Trump being the big bad in the game are an internet meme.<\/p>\n

\"ProtestersThe boy king. King, baby, pile of crap, the images were mixed, the message wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\"WomanPresident Donald Trump denies he\u2019s behaving like a king. The protesters in Dallas would be glad if they could believe that.<\/p>\n

\"NoWhile much of the crowd endured the wet on Pacific Plaza, others sought whatever shelter they could from the rain.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Rev. Erick Folkerth kicks of fthe No Kings protest with a call for love and compassion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rain might have thinned the crowd early, but it didn’t stop the protest at the Dallas No Kings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7962,102,104,103,1724,9227],"class_list":["post-10180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-activism","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-immigration","tag-racial-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}