Organizers in Spokane have combined a local No Kings rally and a long-planned Pride festival. Pia Hallenberg, one of the Pride event organizers, estimates 60,000 people have turned out to the Lilac City’s tree-lined downtown riverfront park so far,

ICE protests in downtown Spokane escalate to state of emergency after demonstrators ignore curfew, with police deploying tear gas and making arrests for failure to disperse.

Pepper spray, more than 30 people arrested, and the mayor issuing a curfew for the first time since 2020 in response to George Floyd’s death — Spokane is preparing for more unrest on Saturday after local police dispersed a protest at a federal immigration facility on Wednesday,

Protesters have gathered in Spokane as part of the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations, coinciding with Spokane Pride.

Just days after dozens of people were arrested after clashing with law enforcement at an immigration protest in downtown Spokane, area leaders are looking to learn from the incident and prevent similar unrest at others planned for Saturday.

A fter a first appearance in Spokane County Superior Court at 1:30 pm on Thursday, June 12, two protesters who were booked into Spokane County Jail on felony charges for unlawful

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown declared a state of emergency amid ICE protests downtown and issued a curfew to begin at 9:30 p.m.

“Protest on public property is always allowed,” said Jeffry Finer, a Spokane attorney who has represented many protesters over the years, and has also worked on a landmark case involving the restriction of demonstrations at a local medical building.

Once Spokane police did arrive en masse and protesters refused to disperse from the immediate area surrounding the ICE offices, continuing to attempt to blockade the entrances, the use of limited crowd dispersal munitions such as smoke grenades and pepper balls became necessary, as did the eventual curfew order, she argued.

Multiple protesters have been detained in downtown Spokane. The protesters were part of the No Kings protest that began Saturday afternoon. The protest began in Riverfront Park before moving through the streets of downtown.

Townsend, a hair stylist in Cheney, Wash., never considered herself very political until she read the conservative blueprint Project 2025 last fall. Since President Trump’s inauguration in January, she’s attended seven protests in nearby Spokane.