Anti-Trump protesters march by tens of thousands nationwide
The protests that have spread across the nation are against Trump, but more pointedly, they are expressions of concern about how personal lives could change. Police said Saturday that nine people have been booked into the Multnomah County Jail. They chanted about women’s rights, gay rights, the rights of immigrants and African-Americans.
Yasso, who said she was an immigration lawyer, said immigrants are terrified.
“It’s not that we’re sore losers”, she said. “People don’t know what will happen and they’re very scared”.
After a presidential campaign noted for Trump’s heated rhetoric on undocumented Mexican immigrants, crowds gathered to build bonds during the US-Mexico 2018 World Cup qualifier game Friday in Columbus, Ohio.
More than a thousand protesters took to the streets across California after night fell including downtown Los Angeles, where over 200 were arrested a night earlier.
Police in Portland, Oregon, say they have detained four people in connection with a shooting that left one wounded during a protest of President-elect Donald Trump.
A few hundred people gathered outside CNN’s Los Angeles headquarters in a peaceful protest.
The last time 65-year-old Leslie Holmes participated in protests was in San Francisco in the 1970s, during the Vietnam War.
On Sunday, demonstrators returned to the streets of major cities and small towns across the country, voicing their discontent with the president-elect and rejecting him as their leader.
“This antipathy towards Trump is very real and very deep-seated”, said Joshua Dyck, an associate professor of political science at the school. They began making arrests when the crowd refused to disperse.
About 4,000 protesters gathered in Washington Square Park Friday for a “love rally”, ABC News affiliate WABC-TV reported, adding that most of the demonstrators were young women.
More anti-Trump demonstrations were planned for the weekend, including in NY and Los Angeles. Nineteen arrests were made on Saturday night, according to Portland Police. The president-elect had touted the repeal of the Affordable Care Act but has struck a more conciliatory tone in recent days, following a meeting with sitting president Barack Obama.
Portland activist Greg McKelvey, who has helped manage actions with the group Don’t Shoot Portland, announced Thursday that several are groups would be working together under the new name, Portland’s Resistance.
The Facebook page for a protest planned in Burlington, Vermont, said: “Come protest the xenophobia, racism, homophobia, misogyny, and climate science denial of the Trump/Pence regime!”
The male victim was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
The man was blasted after reportedly getting into an argument with a motorist as he marched over Morrison Bridge in Portland, Oregon.
In Portland, the scene of the shooting, protesters smashed shop windows, sprayed graffiti and damaged cars as they clashed with police, who used tear gas and rubber bullets to quell unrest.
In Indianapolis, two police officers were injured by protesters throwing rocks Saturday evening, according to a tweet from the Indianapolis Metro Police Department’s official account.
Police later revised the number, saying 26 people were detained but only 25 had been arrested.
The anti-Trump protesters started the night in front of the White House then marched throughout the city and at one point stopped in front of Trump’s D.C. hotel.
More anti-Trump demonstrations could be on the way.