(14 Jun 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jackson, Mississippi – 14 June 2025
1. Protesters marching
2. Various of protesters cheering
3. Various of protesters cheering
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Johnson, protester:
"Daily it feels to me like we are losing the thread of democracy in our country—that that it’s unraveling before our eyes. Each step that the administration takes appears to take some strand and pull it out of the weave."
5. Protesters marching
6. Sign reading (English) "Senator Alex Pedilla (sic) now, all of us next, but God"
7. A group of protesters standing, holding signs
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Minnie Pearl Stevenson, protester:
"I’m really concerned about what’s happening to immigrants. I mean, who in American isn’t an immigrant?"
9. Protesters hold signs in the rain
10. Protester drapes a trans flag around their head
11. Young boy wearing rain poncho
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Minnie Pearl Stevenson, protester:
"Yeah I hope that people see that Americans know what the right thing is. What the right thing to do is."
13. Protesters raise their arms and cheer
14. Two protesters smiling and talking
15. Sign reading (English) "If brown skinned immigrants do not have due process rights neither do you."
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Greta Kemp Martin, protester:
"Today we’re gathering as many of our friends across the country and across the state for a ‘No Kings’ rally to protest the current administration’s priorities and current activities across the nation."
17. Man holds anti-abortion sign
18. Man preaches
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Blake Bartlam, Trump supporter:
"So we’re just out here exercising our First Amendment right just like they are because we believe that’s what America was founded on is people with different ideas coming together and being able to get along peaceful with one another. We believe that’s what the American Constitution is all about and what the American revolution is all about."
20. Woman waves Trump flag
21. Blake Bartlam, Trump supporter carries flag over his shoulder
22. Woman wears Trump shirt
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Blake Bartlam, Trump supporter:
"The notion that Trump is a king is ridiculous. They’ve been running with that narrative for the last 10 years, and he hasn’t been a king once. If he was a king, he never would have left office in 2020."
24. Woman twirls sign
25. Woman wears "I’m an immigrant" shirt
26. Large group of protesters sitting and standing
STORYLINE:
Opening up their demonstration to the tune of "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath, several hundred people gathered on the Mississippi State Capitol lawn in Jackson to signal their support for a wide variety of causes: Palestine, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and democracy itself.
Some people had tinfoil crowns perched atop their heads. Others held signs that invited nearby drivers to join in voicing their dissatisfaction with the Trump administration with messages such as "Honk if you never text war plans."
"It feels to me like we are losing the thread of democracy in our country—that that it is unraveling before our eyes. Each step that the administration takes appears to take some strand and pull it out of the weave, and I’m afraid that it will take so much time and so much effort if we can to even recover the loses that we are, that we are experiencing," said Melissa Johnson, who drove an hour-and-a-half to protest in Jackson.
Before protesters marched around the capitol, organizers kicked off the event by thanking the capitol police for shutting down nearby streets. The organizers’ gratitude was met by cheers from the crowd.
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