‘No Kings’ protest planned for NYC Saturday after days of anti-ICE demonstrations
June 13, 2025, 2:38 p.m.
The protest is one of hundreds of anti-Trump protests planned in cities across the country.
New Yorkers are set to take to the streets to protest the Trump administration on Saturday – after days of mostly peaceful marches and rallies in the city against immigration enforcement.
The demonstration planned in Manhattan on Saturday is part of “No Kings” protests being organized in hundreds of cities across the country. The rallies will coincide with a military parade organized by the Trump administration in Washington, D.C., to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary. Saturday is also President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
Dozens of activist groups, including the Manhattan Young Democrats, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Common Cause New York, helped organize the Manhattan demonstration. Organizers wrote on their website that they’re aiming to divert attention from the military parade with the No Kings rallies.
“Instead of allowing this military parade to be the center of gravity, we will make action everywhere else the story of America that day: people coming together in communities across the country to reject strongman politics and corruption,” a message on the website reads.
Activists organized the protests to oppose what they view as the “increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration,” according to the No Kings website.
Robert Agyemang of the New York Immigration Coalition said thousands of demonstrators are expected to peacefully protest in the city.
“The event is called No Kings because there is a way and a manner in which the president is functioning as if he is a king and above law,” Agyemang said.
On Friday, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said thousands of police officers will be available Saturday to safeguard protests in the city.
“We have planned around the clock to ensure that those officers are deployed to the right places at the right times,” she told reporters on Friday.
Both Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams said any demonstrators who commit crimes will be swiftly arrested.
“You will be met with the full strength and determination of the greatest police department in the world,” Tisch said.
The demonstration in New York is set to kick off after days of protests in the city this week over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
The protests in New York this week came after demonstrators took to the streets in Los Angeles and other California cities, at times violently clashing with police and federal law enforcement officers.
In response, the Trump administration dispatched National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the objections of California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
In Manhattan, the largest protest this week stepped off on Tuesday evening at Foley Square, near a federal office building that houses an immigration court and offices for immigration authorities. Demonstrators that night marched through the streets of Lower Manhattan in a large crowd that extended for several city blocks.
A group of protesters that broke away from the march that night clashed with police officers near the federal building. Tisch said 86 people were arrested that night.
On Wednesday, a significantly smaller group of protesters gathered at Foley Square starting around 5 p.m. and chanted anti-ICE slogans. An NYPD spokesperson said 10 people were arrested at the Wednesday demonstration.
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