'No Kings' protests turn violent in Portland, LA and Dallas — as rally near Mar-a-Lago takes bizarre turn ⁠64%

By David Spector⁠0%

3/29/2026, 3:47:09 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 36.5% saturation with 213 hits. Analysis detected 1,372 faulty-reasoning hits from 584 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠64% (7,435 of 20,371 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 63.50% of the article peer group.

No Kings protests in Portland, Los Angeles and Dallas grew violent Saturday — and one near Mar-a-Lago in Florida took a lewd turn — as thousands filled streets around the US in angry demonstrations against the Trump Administration. 
No Kings demonstrations in Portland, Oregon got out of hand in the evening with protesters sporting gas masks attacking police officers who were trying to control the crowd, according to video posted on X by FreedomNews.tv. 
There was no immediate word on arrests. 
In Dallas, Police had to separate No Kings demonstrators from “Pro America” counter demonstrators as the two groups engaged in heated clashes. 
Video of the scene showed a protester being hauled away and arrested and other shouting “f—k you” at apparent pro-Trump demonstrators who were carrying flags and automatic weapons. 
Protesters holding signs and chanting at the No Kings demonstration in Los Angeles. 
Toby Canham for CA Post 
Police attempt to control the protest in Los Angeles. 
Toby Canham for CA Post 
A large mob of demonstrators waving Palestinian and other flags hurled cement blocks towards Department of Homeland Security agents in Los Angeles. 
The unruly crowd was gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center where a few dozen DHS agents were working. 
They banged on the fence and charged and threw cement blocks at DHS agents, according to video posted by independent journalist Anthony Cabassa. 
DHS agents deployed tear gas on the crowd and Los Angeles Police Department officers clad in riot gear were dispatched to the scene. 
Protesters violently resisted arrests from LAPD cops, video showed. 
The Dallas Police Department work to contain a demonstration during a “No Kings” rally in downtown on March 28, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. 
Getty Images 
Demonstrators take part in a “No Kings” protest in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, in Portland, Oregon, on March 28, 2026. 
REUTERS 
Protesters hold signs and flags near US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort during the “No Kings” national day of protest. 
AFP via Getty Images 
Outside Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., female protesters lifted up their shirts Saturday as counterdemonstrators peppered them with insults including “w—re mongers” and “butch d—es.” 
Outside Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, two men nearly came to blows at a No Kings rally. 
A counterprotester in a shirt that read “deport liberal white women” got in a screaming match with a liberal demonstrator as the two men stood less than an inch apart, KTLA 5 reported. 
Protesters resisted arrests from LAPD cops. 
AP 
The crowd in Los Angeles became unruly. 
Toby Canham for CA Post 
As the two men stared each other down and tried to provoke each other into a physical altercation, passersby screamed “racist go home” at the counter protester. 
The counterprotester began exiting the confrontation while bellowing, “This guy is fighting for illegal aliens,” in a megaphone after about 20 seconds of shouting. 
Tens of thousands of people marched in No Kings protests in New York City Saturday to protest the Iran war and Trump administration immigration policies. 
The No Kings march in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. 
Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post 
Trump haters like actor Robert De Niro and state Attorney General Letitia James were in attendance at the demonstrations. 
A group of demonstrators waving red hammer and sickle flags chanted “there is only one solution communist revolution” outside Times Square. 
There were no arrests, NYPD sources told The Post. 
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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