Protestors gathered In Lexington Saturday calling actions by the Trump Administration illegal and unconstitutional. A crowd of about one thousand attended a downtown rally with the title, “No Kings Then, No Kings Now.” The first speaker was Louis Knupp, an organizer for 50-50-1 Kentucky, who said the administration’s “no due process” action against immigrants could go further.
“Now our government is openly talking about exiling American citizens that they deem criminals, and they are trying to criminalize dissent. They want what we are doing right here, right now to be criminalized. Does this look illegal to you?” “No!”
Knupp reminded the crowd that the American Revolution began in Lexington, Massachusetts exactly 250 years before. Penny Gibson of Lexington, Kentucky said protestors are making a difference.
“There have been three rallies in downtown Lexington in the past five weeks, every other Saturday. Do you think they're having an impact?”
“I do. I do. I do. I saw a teacher in one of the schools here said that the kids are suddenly interested in their civics classes. So they're starting to ask questions. They're starting to see, see us out here. They're starting to ask what's going on.”
One of the larger signs read, “No king, no dictator; three separate but equal branches; uphold our Constitution, protect our democracy.
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