Chip Gibbons, policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, one of the key organizers of Saturday’s No Kings protests, tells NOTUS the coalition is preparing for things to get ugly.
“We have a very volatile situation in which these federal forces are not wanted in these cities, and they’re behaving very aggressively towards the people there – being very provocative, attacking or arresting people who are filming them or protesting them,” said Gibbons. “There is some belief that Trump wants incidents like this to occur, because then it can justify what he’s doing even further. I would be very concerned about these federal forces trying to provoke one of the protests.”