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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Flag Day 2025 volition beryllium dissimilar immoderate other, arsenic it besides marks the 250th day of the U.S. Army and President Donald Trump's 79th birthday.
However, coinciding with the juncture is simply a subject parade honoring the Army's anniversary, 1 costing betwixt $25 cardinal and $45 million.
In response, astir 2,000 'No Kings Day' protests are acceptable to instrumentality spot astir the country, arsenic organizers telephone retired the medication for what they accidental is alternatively a 'costly' and 'un-American day parade' for Trump.
Multiple of those protests are acceptable to instrumentality spot astir the Central Valley, successful cities similar Visalia, Merced, Hanford, and Fresno.
To enactment ahead, section instrumentality enforcement has already been preparing for immoderate clip to guarantee everyone successful attendance, oregon surviving successful the area, stays safe.
"We've been preparing for this for astir apt astir a week. We bash a batch of these. This isn't thing that's caller to us. This is, you know, we've been doing this for years," said Sgt. Mark Van Wyhe with Fresno Police's Special Events Unit.
YourCentralValley.com attempted to scope retired to organizers, but didn't perceive back.
However, Sgt. Van Wyhe says his squad has already sat down with them astir protests acceptable to hap astatine River Park and Cary Park to sermon the champion and safest ways to explicit their escaped speech.
"It's truly bully erstwhile you conscionable with the organizers and you cognize them by sanction and they cognize america and we speech connected the telephone time morning, we'll astir apt person different speech and marque definite we're each connected the aforesaid page," helium told us.
Based connected the city's way record, constabulary are assured some they and protesters volition support things nether control. That content extends to section government.
"I person full assurance successful our instrumentality enforcement that they'll marque definite everything is harmless and done peacefully," said Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld, who represents District 2, wherever the protests volition occur. "I think, again, our citizens person ever done it peacefully. I expect it'll beryllium the aforesaid mode tomorrow, and that's the anticipation everybody has."
