If a protest requires permission it isn’t a protest.
In the US, generally, you aren’t so much asking permission as giving notice that your expecting a generate a crowd, despite the phrasing. Freedoms of speech, assembly and association are still a thing.
The purpose behind it is to give emergency services a heads up to minimize obstruction of normal or emergency traffic and to provide some level of crowd control to minimize the chance of flash stampedes. Like if some idiot sets off a firework, everyone thinks it’s a gunshot and started running.
Approval is generally automatic, but failure to go through the approval process could result in your peaceful protest turning into a riot, or being declared a riot.
They were declared riots before they even started.
I was about to reply that today’s protests seem to have gone off peacefully till this article came up in my news feeds.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/14/portland-police-ice-facility-riot/
As far as I know though, the Portland protest, and the assassinations of the Minnesota legislator, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, seem to have been the exceptions.
Today in SLC someone took a rifle to our march and shot a protestor. Last I heard the victim didn’t make it.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/06/14/crowd-gathers-salt-lake-city-march/
After the shots, everyone scattered and the shooter hid among others who were trying to shelter & take cover. Some hero noticed the rifle sticking out of his bag, grabbed the bag and called police over:
Protests turn into riots when the police wanted to, exactly then, and very rarely before that point.
Around 80,000 people still showed up to protest at the MN capital today, so I don’t think what “officials” say matters.
The officials can get fucked. What an absolutely absurd and cowardly response.
Yeah, people misunderstand how citizen protests work when they talk about protest organizers like they’re in charge. Maybe they filed some papers with city hall and did some promotion, but there’s no such thing as “protest leadership”.
Yup protests have no head to kill. So try as they may this will continue until we are sure no nazis are inside our political system.
Good.
The social contract is unraveling.
Important comment, this has been fraying for several years and now it’s unravelling.
This will show the fascists that they have a means to shut down all protest.
They didn’t, people showed up all over the state. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/14/warnings-state-officials-following-shootings-no-kings-rallies-minnesota https://www.startribune.com/trump-protests-gear-up-around-minnesota-us/601371723
Showing up is not an end in itself
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You’ll be protesting correctly when you effect change.
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Well tough guy, where’s your truck bomb?
It’s called a Tesla and it’s a legitimate automotive choice.
Sorry, are you insisting that people from other countries need to come save you from the thing we’ve been telling you for decades was going to happen?
Bullshit!
Exactly my thoughts. Like, this should make the protest larger, not stop it. This is exactly what they are protesting against, is it not?
If I am understanding it correctly, a stay at home order was issued because the shooter was still “at large” having shot at authorities and then fleeing. The time the protests was supposed to be was covered under the stay at home order.
I think the protests should happen if at all possible, but I understand not wanting people on the streets when there is a known gunman about.
If the protests against Trump are canceled because his supporters assassinate Democrats, it will encourage more assassinations.
1 gunman, thousands of protesters. Hmmm.
Just wondering if you know how mass shootings happen? Cause you listed their preferred recipe.
Right, the gunman might run into the crowd and loudly announce that he was going to shoot them before being wrestled to the ground, or the gunman might find a safe perch and fire indiscriminately into the crowd, causing casualties, panic and chaos, then melt away into the night.
Tough to say which one is more likely
The stay at home order was for one suburb where the assassin fled on foot.
Officials cancel all “No Kings” events
I don’t think it works like that, like it is in the fucking name.
That’s why 80,000 people showed up anyway
A good start.
11,000,000+ Nation Wide.
Neat so like 3% of people nation wide? Maybe a bit lower.
3.5% according to 50501.
350,000,000 roughly in the US and 11,000,000 in attendance. This is not hard math unless there are more then stated (always a possibility) it was 3.14%. I think the 3.5% is a joke about some other propaganda going around about how non-violent movements with 3.5% participation always succeed (not true).
The one in the area of the shootings was cancelled due to a stay at home order, but the one at the capitol 100% happened, although with a different tone and not all the speakers showed up.
Can we also cancel all the monarch bullshit this administration is doing too?
Not without killing someone, it seems.
They tried! We had the protest anyway! AG Ellison spoke and everything.
The cowardly “officials” cancelled the protests, and 80,000 people proved that they don’t listen to spineless Democrats any more than treasonous MAGAs, and showed up anyway.
Craven Democrat politicians need to match the courage of their constituents, or find another job. It’s time for Democratic Warriors to step up.
What officials?
Capitol event organizers, who originally expected a turnout of 10,000 people, released this statement early Saturday afternoon:
"Out of an abundance of caution and in adherence to guidance from Governor Walz and the Minnesota State Patrol, all remaining No Kings events in Minnesota are being canceled immediately. This decision comes in light of the ongoing shelter-in-place order and the tragic shooting that targeted two elected officials and their spouses. We are doing this in accordance with local and state guidance given the suspect is still at large impersonating a police officer.
Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the communities shaken by this violence. We are in close contact with our hosts, attendees, and state and local officials and remain committed to ensuring all other events around the country proceed peacefully and safely"
Fair enough. Thank you.
I was at the capital protest, didn’t even realize it was canceled until they started talking.
I was also at the Earth Day protest and I loved seeing way more people today. I didn’t do the march and it was awesome seeing the march come down the street toward the capital grounds.
I wish we could have had their planned schedule today but I’m glad they still did something and it was a good mix of protest and the somber reality of the assassinations.
I’m very out of the loop with this, I’m not from the USA. Which protests do we like, and which don’t we?
Which types you like probably hinges on how you feel about flak vested white supremacist militias, I guess.
Surprisingly, I’m not really in favour of them, the handful of pics vids I’ve seen didn’t have enough context…like there are Brits that are anti Farage cause he’s not authoritarian enough.
Oh yeah, tell me about it. You still get far-right protests against Israel where I’m from because while they like the genocide, they still hate Jews. Weird people are weird.
This protest is pro-democracy though.
Musk’s falling out with Farage was reportedly because he wasn’t rabidly far-right enough in the correct ways.
The “No Kings” protest was anti-Trump. Do with that what you will.
I’m assuming the handmaids are the good guys too? I’ve only really seen a handful of vids and not enough to get context.
People dressing up as handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale are typically dressed that way as a form of protest against the conditions that would lead to Handmaid’s Tale becoming a reality. Which is typically anti-Christian nationalism but can also include anti-MAGA/Trump which …the lines there are blurry at best.
Thank you for your explanations, just wanted to be sure.
Officials cancelled anti-Trump protests after a Democrat representative was killed. (Trump is Republican.)
Why was this posted three hours ago, after the protests had taken place already?
Sounds like something the king would want then to do.
