No King’s Day Protests in San Francisco and Oakland: Thousands Protest Trump

No King’s Day Protests in San Francisco and Oakland: Thousands Protest Trump. From the air and the ground, thousands of people could be seen taking on their city streets to join the No King’s Day protest across the Bay Area. No kids.

In San Francisco, tens of thousands marched from Dolores Park to City Hall Saturday morning. San Francisco came out in force. They felt um like they had to they had to show up.

They couldn’t stand on the sidelines anymore. Adam Shien is one of the organizers behind the group Indivisible San Francisco. America, California, San Francisco.

We will stand up. We peacefully protest against uh the powers that bea trying to make a president a king. The same message rang through the streets of Oakland. We had over 10,000 people today in Oakland.

We are one of over 2,000 protests across the country with over 5 million people we think out on the streets um all united with one voice saying that we are in opposition to President Trump.

A group of at least 3,000 people took on the streets of Dublin, a larger number than organizers expected, motivated by the Trump administration’s plan to reopen a prison that was closed last year.

Ours was uh had the theme of no kings as well as what we said no dungeons. So we added that theme to it as well because in Dublin there is a a a federal prison that ICE wants to reopen as a detention facility.

Groups in Santa Rosa San Mateo Port Madera West Marin and Walnut Creek joining what became the largest single day peaceful protest in recent American history.

Many attributing the peaceful factor to the fact that they started marching in the morning as well as their collaboration with law enforcement agencies. The people that want to start agitators normally show up later in the days.

We’ve noticed along those lines. In San Francisco, police officers were seen blocking several streets during this demonstration. A lot of it was related to crowd control, really tracking the movement of people across the city, um diverting public transportation as necessary.

at the city’s emergency services building. City departments worked closely to stay ahead of any agitators. Would you say that today was a success? Yeah, absolutely. It was overwhelmingly calm.

Um there was a sense of community. Um and I think for the most part it was a really good day in San Francisco today. In San Francisco, L. Pñena, ABC7 News.