No Kings 2 Protest

Protesters gather for the second No Kings Protest in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, October 18, 2025, to criticize the current Trump presidency. Thousands gathered at city hall before marching through the streets with anti-Trump signs.

Protesters gathered at the Metropolitan Detention Center following the conclusion of the No Kings 2 protest. Police had blocked the entrances to the detention center on Alameda to establish their command center in front of the building. The crowd of demonstrators gathered at the Commercial Street intersection, where an LAPD squad car at one point drove through the crowd to access the command center, striking and injuring a protester. LAPD declared the protest an unlawful assembly before 8 PM, pushing in with batons, firing less-than-lethal rounds, and charged the protest with bokkens on horseback to disperse the crowd. Several protesters were injured in the following push, with one protester requiring stitches from a strike to the head. At least 14 protesters were arrested on Saturday. In a continuing escalation of LAPD’s violation of press freedom and rights, multiple journalists were fired upon and shot with less than lethal, hit with batons and bokkens, and grabbed by LAPD. Horseback LAPD units said, “Press are agitators” and only provided safety to journalists who filmed over a hundred feet behind LAPD’s skirmish line.