{"id":510881,"date":"2026-01-12T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510881\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:13:20","slug":"thousands-turn-out-for-spontaneous-no-kings-protest-in-midtown-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510881\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands turn out for spontaneous ‘No Kings’ protest in Midtown Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of demonstrators and a handful of elected officials turned out for a \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally in Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their opposition to the Trump administration in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good<\/a> by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, and U.S. military actions<\/a> in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an urgent moment for everyone to stand up and fight fascism at home and abroad,\u201d former city comptroller and current congressional candidate<\/a> Brad Lander told the Daily News on the sidelines of the rally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a rapidly advancing authoritarian regime, and we\u2019re out here to say we\u2019re not going to stand for it,\u201d he said. \u201c[Not going to] let them kill our neighbors and abduct immigrants and take over foreign countries. So that\u2019s why we\u2019re out here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

TIMOTHY A. CLARY \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

People hold signs as they participate in a protest in Manhattan on Sunday. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Lander addressed a crowd\u2014 the NYPD estimated it around 2,000 people though organizers say the count was significantly larger \u2014
who gathered in the southeast corner of Central Park. Protesters held signs reading slogans such as \u201cMelt ICE,\u201d \u201cICE Out Now,\u201d \u201cDefend Venezuela,\u201d \u201cIKEA has better cabinets,\u201d and \u201cNo Kings, Only Queens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Trump talks about the U.S. running Venezuela, we know that in the U.S., people are struggling to survive. A quarter of Americans are out of work. Parents cannot afford to feed their families. Rent is unaffordable,\u201d said Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of New York City Democratic Socialists of America, explaining the protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery airstrike, every military operation and every occupation cost money that could be used to strengthen the working class in the United States, could be used to strengthen cooperation abroad. Latin America does not belong to Donald Trump. Latin America belongs to the people of Latin America,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one here is a fan of Maduro<\/a>, but Trump doesn\u2019t get to decide what happens in countries around the world,\u201d Lander said about Maduro.<\/p>\n

\"Demonstrators<\/p>\n

AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa<\/p>\n

Demonstrators march past Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday. (AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa)<\/p>\n

Imam Muhammad Shahidullah, who was also in the crowd, said \u201cas Muslims, we believe every single human the representative of the God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the name of God, we stand here with the grave and righteous anger,\u201d he said. \u201cWe remember the lives taken by ICE. Human beings, not numbers destroyed by policies of fear and cruelty. Let history remember that we did not stay silent as a human, as a representative of the god.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

TIMOTHY A. CLARY \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

People participate in a protest against ICE activities and the US intervention in Venezuela in Manhattan on Sunday. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY \/ AFP via Getty Images)
\n\"People<\/p>\n

AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa<\/p>\n

People gather in Central Park for a protest against ICE and war in Venezuela on Sunday. (AP Photo\/Heather Khalifa)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of demonstrators and a handful of elected officials turned out for a \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally in Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":510882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-510881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115882308995914903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}