Rock Hill Turned Out for "No Kings"

Charlotte Jammed

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The pleasant weather contrasted with the angry call for urgent action to stop Trump’s broadaxe policies, which have paralyzed many of the federal government’s basic services, cost thousands of local federal workers their careers, and left many anxious about turmoil ahead.

“This has been a dark time for us, and I fear it is going to get worse,” said disabled Army veteran Jay Carey, a combat veteran of several wars. He was invited to give the rally’s closing remarks after gaining public notice when he was evicted from U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards’s town hall meeting in March for protesting the Republican congressman’s failure to fight Trump’s cuts to veterans’ programs.

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North Carolina

Protest in Durham, North Carolina

Protests were held in Charlotte and suburbs such as Concord.[253][254] In the Research Triangle, protests were held in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Cary, and Morrisville.[255][256][257] In the Triad, protests were held in Lexington, High Point, and Winston-Salem.[258] In Wilmington, state representative Deb Butler spoke at a protest.[259] Other cities and towns with protests were Fayetteville,[260] Greenville, Asheville, Bryson City, Waynesville, Sylva, Sparta, Oxford, Sanford, Jacksonville, West Jefferson,[261] and Hayesville.[255][262][263][264] North Carolina state representative Julie von Haefen incited controversy by posting an image taken at a No Kings rally in North Carolina, depicting a woman holding effigies of two severed heads and a bloody guillotine, leading many Republicans to question whether she was promoting the assassination of Donald Trump. Von Haefen took the image and her X account down after the controversy erupted.[265].

South Carolina

Thousands of people participated in protests in the state.[310][311][312] About 1,000 people gathered in Charleston.[313] Other protests included the cities and towns of Greenville, Spartanburg, Greenwood, Rock Hill, Pendleton, Seneca and Columbia. The Greenville protest in particular was organized by the Greenville Progressive Coalition, which includes the Indivisible Upstate SC, 50501, and "We the People" under the name "Valor Over Vanity". Despite the change in name, Michelle Shara the Upstate representative for 50501, stated that the protest in Greenville was part of the "No Kings National Day" struggle and in conjunction with Spartanburg.