No Kings march ends with pepper spray and arrests
Protesters were pepper-sprayed by police near the end of the No Kings march in Downtown Memphis on March 28, 2026. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The march began peacefully at Robert R. Church Park, but confrontations with police at the end of the day led to arrests. Two of the arrested marchers have been released, but two others remain in custody.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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