No Kings Protest 2025

Thousands of people lined Spokane Falls Boulevard on Saturday, June 14, for the No Kings rally in Spokane, which later turned into a march that wound through downtown for hours. The rally was one of many across the country, which collectively drew millions of people to demonstrate in their own cities.

The No Kings rallies were a reaction to President Donald Trump, who hosted a military parade the same day in Washington, D.C., a move some saw as too similar to military parades hosted by authoritarians in other countries. The parade coincided with the federal holiday Flag Day, and Trump's birthday.

With thousands of people already in Riverfront Park for the Pride festival, and some attending the Stonewall Rally as part of that event, by 3:30 pm there were already hundreds gathered for the separate No Kings rally near the Red Wagon and along Spokane Falls Boulevard.

For more than an hour, people with signs filled the sidewalks on either side of the street, as dozens of cars drove by and honked their support (aside from one or two Trump-flag adorned trucks, which revved as they drove by). Some signs called on the juxtaposition of Pride and the political event, reading "No Kings, Yass Queens," while others were furious about the ramp-up of deportations without due process, stating things like "If they ripped your family apart, you'd be here too," "Due process is for everyone," and "Deport ICE gestapo pigs to the Hague."

After 5 pm, thousands of those present started marching in the streets of downtown, circling several times and crossing the Monroe Street Bridge at one point.

Just before 7 pm the marchers headed through the park toward West North River Drive, where the group split, with some heading toward the site on Cataldo Avenue where Wednesday's protests met up, while others who headed east were blocked from marching onto Division Street by a line of officers on bicycles and rows of law enforcement vehicles.

Officers told the protesters to turn around and head west, because Division Street needed to remain open as a route to the hospitals. If people didn't leave, the officers announced over a barely audible speaker from a vehicle, force would be used against them. A 16-year-old protester with a loudspeaker of his own goaded officers into removing their gas masks (which several did), and also talked down protesters who appeared to be itching for a conflict. Ultimately, the group turned around and filtered back into Riverfront Park.

Scattered groups continued marching, with no cohesive course.

After the Inlander left, when things seemed peaceful and dissipated, a small remaining group that was still marching in the street on Spokane Falls Boulevard was blocked by officers near City Hall. After ignoring orders to disperse back into the park, about a dozen protesters were arrested, and officers used smoke and other crowd control measures, before leaving the area, according to the Spokesman-Review, Range, Spokane News, and others who still remained in the park and posted about the scene.