Protesters pictured during the No Kings Protests on Saturday, June 14.

Close to 100 protesters came out on a rainy Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s policies as part of the No Kings Protests on June 14.

This was not a new sight in Warren, as protesters have gathered weekly to protest the administration’s policies each Saturday for several weeks. More than 100 people brought signs while taking part in a No Kings rally on Saturday morning in Fredonia, N.Y., with another estimated 500 people taking part in a No Kings rally in Jamestown, N.Y.,

Some protesters at the No Kings rally believe that President Trump is using executive orders to bypass congress and act like a king and that the Department of Government efficiency eliminated programs without necessary congressional approval.

Trump has written 162 executive orders in the less than four months that he has been in office, while only two bills have been passed by Congress, along with five joint resolutions expressing congressional disapproval for rules submitted by various government agencies. For comparison, under former President Joe Biden, 16 bills were passed in the same amount of time. Biden wrote a total of 162 executive orders in his four years in office.

Protesters were concerned about a wide range of issues, including Project 2025, immigration, and the defunding of Social Security, Medicaid and scientific research.

According to the 50501 movement, which helped organize the national protests, “We believe in the power of peaceful protest. We believe in local leadership. We believe that government should serve the people, not control them. We reject political violence and authoritarianism. We stand together to defend the democratic principles this country was founded on.”

Organizers of the “No Kings” demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. Governors across the U.S. had urged calm and vowed no tolerance for violence, while some mobilized the National Guard ahead of marchers gathering.

Confrontations were isolated. But police in Los Angeles, where protests over federal immigration enforcement raids erupted a week earlier and sparked demonstrations across the country, used tear gas and crowd-control munitions to clear out protesters after the formal event ended. Officers in Portland also fired tear gas and projectiles to disperse a crowd that protested in front of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building well into the evening.

And in Salt Lake City, Utah, police were investigating a shooting during a march downtown that left one person critically injured. Three people were taken into custody, including a man believed to be the shooter, who also suffered a gunshot wound, according to Police Chief Brian Redd.

Huge, boisterous crowds marched, danced, drummed, and chanted shoulder-to-shoulder in New York, Denver, Chicago, Austin and Los Angeles, some behind “no kings” banners. Atlanta’s 5,000-capacity event quickly reached its limit, with thousands more gathered outside barriers to hear speakers in front of the state Capitol. Officials in Seattle estimated that more than 70,000 people attended the city’s largest rally downtown, the Seattle Times reported.

“Today, across red states and blue, rural towns and major cities, Americans stood in peaceful unity and made it clear: we don’t do kings,” the No Kings Coalition said in a statement Saturday afternoon after many events had ended.