'Liars and smear artists': Major NYPD announcement leads to mockery of Republicans

Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, and other top Republicans were told they should eat crow on Saturday after the New York Police Department contradicted a popular right-wing narrative.

More than 100,000 people in New York gathered for the "No Kings" pro-democracy protests around the U.S. over the weekend, and the GOP had hyped up the notion that these would be violent protesters or even "terrorists."

But in New York that wasn't a problem, according to NYPD News.

"The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted," the account wrote. "We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests."

That led to mockery online.

Ex-prosecutor Ron Filipkowski sarcastically asked, "

Conservative commentator Bill Kristol said, "

PatriotTakes, which purports to be "dedicated research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy," chimed in, "Wait, Republicans said these were all violent terrorists."

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen chimed in, "NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists."

Jon Favreau joked, "Wow NYPD covering up for Antifa smdh."

Professor Adam Cochran added, "

Wow NYPD (not known for being easy going) made ZERO arrests related to protesting in one of the largest NY protests ever.

Turns out being against fascism has NOTHING to do with violence! ????♂️???? https://t.co/vgd5nv9DT6
— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) October 18, 2025