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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Multiple protests successful absorption of President Donald Trump and his medication took implicit sidewalks successful Fresno and the greater Central Valley, but not everyone was connected committee with the demonstrations.
"No Kings" protests began successful June of this year and dispersed to dozens of cities crossed the United States, and if you stepped retired of the location successful Fresno oregon Clovis connected Oct. 18, past you astir apt saw oregon heard the protests.
"This is ideology successful enactment close now. People are lasting up saying what they judge with nary violence, nary hatred, nary radical slurs," protestor successful Clovis Lee Sargent said.
No Kings protests successful Fresno and Clovis were good attended.
"A batch of this worldly that's happening contiguous was worldly radical conscionable overlooked as, you know, rhetoric. And past it's like, oh, helium meant that,” protestor successful Fresno Mike Wilson said.
"I'm precise acrophobic for our country. The roadworthy that we're going down appears to beryllium going down the roadworthy of fascism,” protester successful Fresno Charlene McCormick said.
Even Lady Liberty made an appearance.
"I saw Lady Liberty, and I was like, determination you go. There you go. I similar that. So that was the archetypal happening I noticed erstwhile I came up this way,” Wilson said.
The Central Valley had astir 12 antithetic No Kings protests that stretched from Modesto to Visalia.
"Against Donald Trump saying that helium has excessively overmuch of an authoritarian benignant of authorities going connected here, that he's conscionable making enforcement decisions and actions and rules and laws what helium sees acceptable without consulting the radical first,” Sargent said.
But immoderate reason the No Kings protests.
"They're entitled to protestation arsenic agelong arsenic it's peaceful. I disagree with it 100%,” Mark A. Bilinski from Los Angeles said.
“I deliberation it's bittersweet and it's beauteous silly astir however they're, however they're going astir it. I mean, there's a mode of doing it, but I don't deliberation it's right. I mean, it's conscionable excessively overmuch silliness,” Marguerite Ancheta from Fresno said.
Dozens gathered successful Clovis for a "No connected Prop 50" rally. That included Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo.
“The lone king successful California is Gavin Newsom, and the radical that person he's continued to situation himself with that alteration his agenda, which is silencing radical that disagree with him. And if you don't judge me, inquire maine who was ripped disconnected of my committees, efficaciously silencing the 500,000 radical I correspond due to the fact that I came retired warring to correspond vale interests,” Assemblywoman Macedo said.
And Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig did not mince words.
"I afloat enactment people's rights to protest. But it's ironic they're retired determination saying nary kings. And yet what Gavin Newsom has done by introducing this redistricting process, that's a king, yet trying to accidental helium wants afloat power successful the legislature erstwhile it comes to drafting maps,” Supervisor Magsig said.
