‘No Kings’ protests live updates: Thousands rally across US to protest Trump as LA keeps curfew to quell chaos

The victim remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to a statement from the Salt Lake City Police Department.

A person of interest is in custody.Roughly 10,000 people were marching between Pioneer Park and a federal building on Saturday when shots were fired near 200 South State Street.

Photographs from the scene appear to show a victim lying in the street with several people administering aid.

Another person was pictured in handcuffs surrounded by police.

The protest was among the largest in Utah as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in cities and small towns across the country.

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell says police began using riot weapons and marching on protesters late Saturday afternoon after activists began attacking officers.

“The day started out very peaceful,” McDonnell told a local NBC affiliate. “We had a lot of people out here, about 30,000. It went very well, up until the point where officers started being attacked.”

McDonnell said those attacks triggered a dispersal order, and those who refused to leave were subject to arrest.

Officers later began being hit with “rocks, bottles, and missiles,” the chief added, saying seven were left with low-level injuries.

Some bystanders to the police rush described being unaware of what triggered officers to begin using stepped-up tactics against the downtown crowd.

What the “No Kings” protests will mean in the grander scheme of history isn’t immediately known, but for the folks at Fox News, the nationwide demonstrations revealed a picture of two Americas.

“I think you’re seeing really a split screen of America,” Fox News contributor Miranda Devine said during a Saturday broadcast. “On the one side you have destruction, small mindedness, mean spiritedness — just negativity, and on the other side, you have the real America, patriotism, positivity, growing onward and upward, better and better.”

Commentator Tomi Lahren had a similar take on the day’s events.

“I am just so taken aback by the contrast in scenes in America today. On the one hand, the military parade shows socially normal, seemingly clean and well-mannered American patriots celebrating their country,” she wrote on X. “And on the other side, you have green haired, soy fed, bitter, disgruntled, vampire looking leftists, who take joy in bashing a Trump piñata with their children. Pick your America.”

It’s been a whirlwind 24 hours for the state of Minnesota.

A manhunt is ongoing for suspect Vance Boelter, 57, who reportedly left a manifesto that names prominent pro-choice individuals in Minnesota, including several Democratic lawmakers who are outspokenly pro-choice.

Despite calls from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for residents to avoid the Saturday protests, tens of thousands of people were on hand at the Minnesota Capitol for the demonstration anyway.

The president has also made millions in license fees, the 234-long disclosure report shows. By comparison, former President Joe Biden’s 2024 filing was 11 pages.

With demonstrations coming to an end around the country, organizers of the “No Kings” protests are estimating that more than 5 million people in 2,100 towns and cities across the country took part in the events.

“Thank you for making it clear that we won’t be ruled by fear,” Indivisible, one of the co-organizers of the protests, wrote in a statement on Bluesky.

Austin, Texas, police are trying to clear protesters from the middle of the street in the downtown area.

“If you are participating in the gathering, please stay on the sidewalks and out of the roadways,” the Austin Police Department wrote on X. “For your own safety, please stay cautious and be aware of your surroundings.”

They’ve been asking the public to leave the roads for over an hour now.

A curfew is once again in place for large parts of Los Angeles, as unrest from anti-immigration raid protests in the city has dovetailed with Saturday’s “No Kings” protests.

Police have spent much of the last few hours trying to remove a shrinking contingent of demonstrators from the area near a federal building downtown, where a dispersal order was issued and officers used riot weapons on a large crowd of activists.

With demonstrations across the country winding down, it appears mass arrests were not a common feature of the “No Kings” protests, though some were taken into custody in smaller-scale incidents.

Bystanders heard police yell, “Gunman!” and “Man with rifle” during the Saturday evening incident.

In Nashville, counter-protester Elijah Millar, was reportedly charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly spitting at people and brandishing a firearm.

Meanwhile, police arrested a California man, Edward Miranda, for allegedly posting an online threat to commit a shooting at a Palm Springs rally.

Two drivers were detained, in San Francisco and Culpeper, Virginia, respectively, for allegedly driving their vehicles into demonstrators.

At a demonstration in Ocala, Florida, a man allegedly wearing a Proud Boys uniform was reportedly arrested for battery and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

More arrests may be coming in Los Angeles, where police clashed with a large crowd after issuing a dispersal order near a federal office downtown.

Police accused the demonstrators of attacking officers and holding an unlawful assembly, while reporters and protesters have said the gathering remained peaceful before police began using riot control weapons.