No Kings Protest: Round 3 in Southeast Ohio

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – Over 3,100 protests took place across the United States and over 100 took place in the state of Ohio according to NoKings.org. Around 300 participants were in Zanesville at the Muskingum County Courthouse and around 200 were in Cambridge at the Guernsey County Courthouse.

People like Barney Reilly, a retired airmen from Zanesville who was born and raised in the Bronx in New York City.

“We knew trump before he was a politician and he was a crook,” Reilly said.

Katelynn from Guernsey county attended both protests to voice her concerns and share them with the community.

“It feels good to know that people are out here with the same problems that I have with this administration,” Katelynn said.

Makayla Granger in Guernsey County participated because she felt that waiting for the upcoming election wasn’t enough.

“It honestly feels great. Like if feels like one of the few things that I can do aside from getting my vote out there is getting my voice out there,” Granger said.

In both Cambridge and Zanesville, there was one decision by President Trump that was front and center in everyone’s minds

“We need to bring our boys home. We don’t have any business being there. We have money to kill but we don’t have money to live and that’s how I feel about it,” said Thomas Christie at the Cambridge protest.

“Well one thing is he’s getting us into wars, he’s bombing children,” Katelynn said.

“We don’t want them going into a foreign country because that means there’s going to be a lot of problems for the troops that have to go in there and we don’t like that,” Reilly said.

While the war with Iran may have been the first issue participants took with the administration, they had a list of other major concerns as well.

“…he’s on the Epstein file and no one is doing anything about it and that infuriates me,” Katelynn said.

“President Trump has no concerns about congress. They’re just somebody that’ll do what he tells them to do and that’s the way they’re acting. They shouldn’t let him get away with all this stuff,” Reilly said.

“People are awake. They see what’s going on, the press is showing them the hardships that the American people are going through right now, which has to stop,” said Kim Trissel, organizer of the Cambridge protest.

No Kings Protests also took place in Coshocton, Newark, Lancaster and New Philadelphia.