"Roughly 3,000 Brooklynites marched through Park Slope on Saturday to denounce President Donald Trump and his cabinet as part of the nationwide No Kings march. Waving signs and banners with slogans like "United We Stand, divided Democracy Falls" and "Kings Are For Fairytales," protestors of all ages marched from Grand Army Plaza to Bartel Pritchard Square, pushing back against the administration's "chaos, corruption, and cruelty.""
"The first round of No Kings marches swept across the country in June - on the same day as Trump's "Grand Military Parade" - in opposition to presidential policies and actions seen as authoritarian. Just five months later, the scope of the protest had grown, as New Yorkers pushed back against mass arrests of immigrants by masked federal agents, the deployment of federal forces to cities around the U.S., damaging spending cuts, the ongoing government shutdown, and more."
"In recent weeks, Trump has frozen billions of dollars in funding for infrastructure projects in New York City and attempted to take back $34 million in security funding from the MTA because the agency is "based in a Sanctuary Jurisdiction city." The president has also vowed to cut federal funding to New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election and denounced the candidate as a communist."
Approximately 3,000 Brooklyn residents marched from Grand Army Plaza to Bartel Pritchard Square in Park Slope to protest President Trump and his administration. Protesters of all ages carried signs condemning perceived authoritarianism and accusing the administration of chaos, corruption, and cruelty. The No Kings mobilization has grown since June when initial marches coincided with Trump's planned military parade, expanding in response to mass arrests of immigrants by masked federal agents, deployment of federal forces to cities, damaging spending cuts, and an ongoing government shutdown. Recent federal actions against New York included frozen infrastructure funds, an attempt to reclaim $34 million in MTA security funding, and threats to cut federal aid related to mayoral politics. The Brooklyn march complemented a Manhattan protest that drew roughly 100,000 participants.
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