No Kings Rally Draws Several Thousand In Riverside, CA
INCIDENT DATE/TIME: 6-14-25, 5:30 P.M.
LOCATION: DOWNTOWN NEAR UNIVERSITY AVE AND MARKET ST.
AREA/CITY: RIVERSIDE
DETAILS:
1. As of 5:45 p.m. there are several thousand people marching through the streets of downtown Riverside as can be seen in the video from in the crowd and above the crowd
Riverside Police Department is estimated over 4000 in attendance. Several thousand people have gathered at the Riverside County Main Courthouse.
RIVERSIDE – Multiple demonstrations are planned Saturday throughout Riverside County as part of the nationwide unrest associated with the “No Kings” movement that’s a denunciation of federal immigration enforcement and other measures undertaken by the Trump administration.
Protests are scheduled in two parts Saturday — the first slated at 10 a.m., and the other around 6 p.m.
The morning assemblies will be at the Walmart Supercenter on Second Street in Beaumont, Rimpau Park on East Ontario Avenue in Corona and the Duck Pond at Rancho California and Ynez roads in Temecula.
The evening rallies will be in Downtown Palm Springs Park at Belardo Road and Museum Way and along the Main Street Pedestrian Mall, near Main Street and University Avenue, in Riverside.
The complete list is available at www.NoKings.org.
It was unclear whether the protests, which are expected to draw assorted interests condemning the 47th president on his 79th birthday, would reach the level of intensity witnessed over the past week in Los Angeles.
Saturday also marks the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. The two events are culminating in the “Grand Military Parade” in Washington, D.C., featuring more than 6,700 soldiers and dozens of armored vehicles parading through the city.
Opponents of the parade — the nation’s first since 1991’s National Victory Celebration, which was timed to welcome returning veterans of the 100- day Persian Gulf War — say it is a vanity project of a nascent dictator.
Previous Riverside County rallies that occurred countywide in 2011 and 2012 during the Occupy Wall Street movement, as well as the anti-police demonstrations in the summer of 2020, generally did not result in significant property damage, though there were confrontations with law enforcement that prompted arrests.
Municipal police agencies, as well as the county sheriff’s department, have released statements warning activists that while they have every right under the First Amendment to assemble and peacefully protest, behavior that leads to damage, obstructs traffic or interferes with law enforcement operations won’t be tolerated.
“Adherence to the law is an absolute requirement if we are to remain a civilized society,” according to a sheriff’s statement. “You are no longer exercising your rights when you infringe on someone else’s constitutional rights or freedoms.”
HANDLING AGENCIES:
SOT(s): YES Mark Takano, U.S. Representative.
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