Demonstrations will be held across the US, with flagship event in Twin Cities, where ICE fatally shot two people
A third No Kings protest will be held on 28 March, organizers announced today. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups coordinating No Kings, said that he expects it to be “the biggest protest in American history”.
Protests will be held nationwide, with a flagship event in Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St Paul – where this month federal immigration agents killed two residents, Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, amid their escalated operations in the region.
Levin said No Kings 3 is a response to many Americans’ growing outrage over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “reign of terror” in communities across the country. The coalition behind the No Kings protests also hosted a mass mobilization “weekend of action” immediately following Good’s death, which included more than 1,000 protests, vigils and other events. According to recent polling from YouGov, more Americans now support abolishing ICE than oppose it.
I get the sentiment sounds better to you than the amount of results you’d get from a No Kings protest on its own, but you cannot honestly believe that your local wine mom is going to wake up one day and literally grab a noose, go out with her friends, build some gallows, and then find a way to kidnap armed ICE officers.
You would never even get remotely the same turnout if you called for that vs No Kings, because one is something you can do with minimal risk to your personal safety, the other is a guarantee you WILL be shot at, gassed, and almost certainly killed by the authorities.
Essentially, you’re saying that anyone who wants the situation in this country to be better should be willing to almost certainly die on the spot because there’s a tiny sliver of a chance they might be able to kill some ICE agents before they do.
Too many older folks think even dumping manure on a state house is “too rude.” The vast majority won’t even agree to murder if they could get away with it.