Over the weekend, so-called No Kings rallies were held across the country that included several cities right here in Kentucky.

Protesters expressed opposition with the war in Iran, frustrations with Ice agents, and what some are calling a rise of authoritarianism in America.

Our Mackenzie Spink brings us more from Lexington's third No Kings rally, which was one of the biggest yet.

I know my round turned out to be right.

Organizers say roughly 10,000 people showed up at Lexington's courthouse square to voice their opposition to the Trump administration.

And what protesters say is governmental overreach that borders on dictatorship.

There's so much going wrong in Washington today, thanks to our their president, not my president.

And it's just so much I mean, now, the files, Epstein files, all the corruption, stealing money, these days and prices of everything.

One of the top concerns at the rally was the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or Ice agents in Kentucky.

All the black Ice agents I travel teachers from across Lexington shared that students and parents no longer feel safe coming to school.

Recently, I made a mistake when taking morning attendance.

I marked a student, absent, who was in the room sitting right in front of me.

Later that morning, I got a call from our Spanish speaking community liaison.

A mother was on the phone, frantic, asking if her daughter was safe.

Not late, not skipping safe.

And I think we all know why.

Voting rights were another big topic among protesters, as the safe act works its way through Congress.

If passed, voters would need to provide documents such as a passport or birth certificate in order to vote in Kentucky.

Your real ID does not show where you were born.

So even though you may have had to show your birth certificate or, your passport to get that real ID, that would not count as documentary proof of citizenship under the Safe act.

Protesters also expressed opposition to the U.S.

war in Iran.

The U.S.

has bombed more than 600 schools in Iran, killing more than 298 students and teachers.

Kendra stencil says she wanted to bring her son to the rally to show him the importance of exercising your First Amendment rights, even if it takes time for things to change.

We've been to all three of them, and each time it has just gotten bigger and bigger, even just across the state.

And so I think it's important to continue to show up because there is more power in numbers.

It's important that young people know what's happening because in certain situations like this, if you grow up just knowing one side of the family, things you can't explore and you can't do it.

But especially with like what Trump's been doing and stuff, young kids should know this so that they're not like so that they don't like think this is okay.

Lexington's rally was part of a larger nationwide and No Kings movement.

National organizers say there were over 3100 events across all 50 states.

For Kentucky edition, I'm Mackenzie Spink.

Thank you, Mackenzie, for that.

An estimated 9 million people showed up to no King's rallies across the US.