section_path: Protests by U.S. state/California/Southern California
section_name: Southern California
paragraph_text: Southern California
  
  An event in Los Angeles drew over 200,000 protesters, and numerous other protests were held across Los Angeles County as part of the movement. Thousands rallied at Long Beach. In Ventura County, more than 12,000 gathered (including 5,500 people in Ventura, 3,000 in Thousand Oaks, 2,000 in Simi Valley, and 1,500 in Ojai). Other demonstrations took place in Beverly Hills Torrance and Pasadena.
  
  About 60,000 people protested at the San Diego demonstration.
  
  In Orange County, thousands attended the No Kings rally at Huntington Beach Pier, while thousands more rallied elsewhere in the county, including Anaheim, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Dana Point.
  
  Other rallies took place in Santa Barbara, Riverside County, San Bernardino County and Santa Monica.