HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Protestors filled Butler Green Park near Campus 805 in Huntsville for a ‘No Kings’ protest Saturday.
The protest was a part of the ‘No Kings’ protests that took place nationwide.
Despite rainy conditions, large crowds gathered to make their voices heard.
David Barnhart Jr. was one of the people in attendance. Barnhart Jr. is a Methodist pastor who said his faith compelled him to come out.
“We are supposed to protect the vulnerable, and we are supposed to love our neighbors as ourself, we are supposed to welcome the immigrant and love the immigrant as ourself. It’s all in the scripture,” Barnhart Jr. said. “I feel like this is something that a lot of Christians have forgotten.”
Other protestors, like 20-year Air Force veteran Vernon Headrick, who served in Vietnam, said he wanted to go because he feels like no is above the law.
“If I had violated the oath of office, the air force would have easily court martialed me or given me a dishonorable discharge or if I had broke laws they could’ve put me in prison,” Headrick said. “I believe that anyone who takes the oath of office should be held to that same principle.”
Headrick said he feels like changes can be made.
“That’s why you see all of these people out here today,” Headrick said. “It’s to make change. The issue is we have to work at this its not going to happen by itself.”
Other protestors said they came out to show empathy for those who couldn’t come out because of fear.
“Just forgetting basic morals and empathy for people for the price of money and power and things like that, and using people’s power for bad and not helping people who need help,” Protestor Zoe Spargo said. .
Huntsville was one of six locations in North Alabama that hosted a protest. People also planned to gather in Florence, Scottsboro, Fort Payne, Guntersville, and Athens.
Organizers called it a nationwide “day of defiance” against the president and his policies.
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