Demonstrators have taken to the streets in cities on the United States west coast to protest Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.
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Hundreds of people flooded into the streets around the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) early on Wednesday morning, chanting anti-Trump expletives and setting ablaze a piñata with his likeness in a trash can, according to the Los Angeles Times, which estimated protesters’ numbers at up to 1,500.
There were no arrests and reports of some minor vandalism, including a Dumpster fire in downtown Portland.
School and district administrators and faculty accompanied the students as they marched from the school through downtown and onto the University of California, Berkeley campus.
He said members of the Boston Socialist Alternative group, mostly students and members of the working class, made a decision to organize the rally early Wednesday morning when they realized the likelihood of a Donald Trump presidency.
Protesters had marched along Highway 94, where a woman was hit by a vehicle, sustaining serious injuries, while in downtown LA anti-Trump graffiti was spotted near city hall, where a crowd of protesters had gathered.
Donald Trump’s presidential victory has sparked protests across America with some demonstrators setting trash on fire, smashing windows and burning the U.S. flag.
A few miles away, University of California, Berkeley students protested on campus. The student-run campus newspaper, the Pitt News, tweeted about an event later Wednesday titled “Emergency Meeting: Let’s Unite to Stop President Trump”.
A report in the Boston Globe about the protests in Oakland put the number of protesters in downtown streets at more than 100.
Protests are erupting across California in response to Donald Trump being elected president.
A couple hundred students walked out of two Seattle high schools earlier Wednesday in protest.
The demonstrators then took to the streets blocking traffic as police mobilized to contain them under a light rain.
“He makes us look bad to the rest of the world”, Mr.
Des Moines Central students gathered outside chanting “Dump Trump” along with other anti-Trump slogans.
Valley High School vice principal David Maxwell said students were given about 15 minutes to protest before they had to return to class.
And in NY, singer Lady Gaga staged a protest outside Trump Towers by standing on top of a sewage truck and holding a sign reading “Love trumps hate”.
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Oakland is a hotbed of violent protest in the San Francisco Bay Area.
