Protesters vandalized the driver’s SUV before officers intervened.
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Protesters block a street and stop traffic during a demonstration against President-elect Donald Trump, early Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Hundreds of students protested on other California university campuses following Trump’s victory. “I don’t think we all relate to the average person maybe”, student Aaron Millstein said.
A number of fires were set on Telegraph Avenue and Broadway, and firefighters were called in to extinguish them. Trump’s threats to deport illegal immigrants and ban all Muslims from entering the country has many anxious they will become targets.
In downtown Chicago, an estimated 1800 people gathered outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower, chanting phrases like “No Trump!”
At one point protestors gathered in a semi-circle and each took turns giving reasons why they believe the Republican billionaire real estate mogul turned president should be impeached.
He said that he was disappointed that Clinton did not give a concession speech but agreed that Trump needed to mend fences.
Smaller groups of students walked out of classes in nearby Oakland and Seattle, Washington, while several hundred students at the University of Texas protested as well, according to local reports.
At UC Santa Barbara, hundreds marched near the campus, with some chanting, “Not my president”.
Brian Barto, a protester who had remained at the White House after most dispersed, told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that he was “destroyed, honestly distraught”.
Alimagham, who is Middle Eastern, said she was also terrified of the message a Trump victory would send and the impact he could have on undocumented immigrants in her life.
Similar protests played out at other college campuses around the nation.
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Some 1,500 California students and teachers rallied earlier on Wednesday in the courtyard of Berkeley High School, a San Francisco Bay Area city known for its liberal politics, before marching toward the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
There were no immediate arrests. The LA Times reports trash containers were ignited in flames and a half dozen storefronts were vandalized or had their windows smashed – including a window at the Oakland Tribune.
University of California students were seen with “F-k Trump, F-k Racism” signs and also taking up the chant “not our president”.
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Students also walked out of two high schools in Oakland, a high school in Boulder, Colorado and a high school in Phoenix, Arizona.
