ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor’s “No Kings” protest on Saturday largely took aim at President Donald Trump, but two of the event’s speakers went off script with a different message.

Between activism, election results and protest turnout, the prevailing political winds suggest the backlash to the president is real.

The largely peaceful protests during the "No Kings Day" demonstration in downtown Los Angeles took an intense turn in the afternoon. Police ordered the crowd to disperse at about 4:15 p.m. PDT near Alameda Street and Temple Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division.

Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, a 39-year-old fashion designer and former “Project Runway” contestant, was fatally shot as an innocent bystander during a “No Kings” protest, according to local police, as Ah Loo is likely the only fatality at thousands of demonstrations against President Donald Trump carried out across the U.

Organizers of the “No Kings” demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. In Oregon, tens of thousands of people gathered in downtown Portland for two large protests -- one that began in Tom McCall Waterfront Park and the other at the Oregon Convention Center.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) harshly condemned a North Carolina state lawmaker’s photo of a “No Kings” rally, which showed someone carrying a prop of a beheaded President Donald Trump. Dozens of “No Kings” rallies were held across the nation on Saturday to protest the president,

“The most threatening sound to an oligarch is laughter.”