New York – Thousands of people protested across the United States on Wednesday over Republican Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election, blasting his campaign rhetoric around immigrants, Muslims and other groups.
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On Wednesday evening, thousands of protesters thronged streets in midtown Manhattan while at a park further downtown hundreds who had gathered screamed “Not my president.”
In Chicago, roughly 1,000 people attempted to gather outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower downtown while chanting phrases like “No Trump! No KKK! No racist USA.” Chicago police closed roads in the area, blocking the demonstrators’ path.
“I’m just really terrified about what is happening in this country,” said 22-year-old Adriana Rizzo, who was holding a sign that read: “Enjoy your rights while you can.”
Protesters railed against Trump’s marquee campaign pledge to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep out undocumented immigrants and other policies perceived as affecting people of color.
“I’m particularly concerned about the rise of white nationalism and this is to show my support against that type of thing,” Rizzo said.
A representative of the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the protests. In his victory speech, however, Trump said he would be president for all Americans, saying, “It is time for us to come together as one united people.”
Earlier this month, after a Ku Klux Klan newspaper declared its support for Trump, his campaign rejected the support and said that “Mr. Trump and his campaign denounces hate in any form.”
Organizers also planned rallies in New York, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and elsewhere for Wednesday. In Austin, the Texas capital, about 400 people staged a march through the city’s streets, police said.
Earlier in the day, some 1,500 California students and teachers rallied in the courtyard of Berkeley High School, a San Francisco Bay Area city known for its progressive politics, before marching toward the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Hundreds of high school and college students walked out in protest in Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles and three other cities in the Bay Area, Richmond, El Cerrito and Oakland.
A predominantly Latino group of about 300 high school students walked out of classes on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles and marched to the steps of City Hall, where they held a brief but boisterous rally.
Chanting in Spanish, “The people united will never be defeated,” the group held signs with slogans such as “Not Supporting Racism, Not My President” and “Immigrants Make America Great.”
Many of those students were members of the “Dreamers” generation, children whose parents entered the United States with them illegally, school officials said, and who fear deportation under a Trump administration.
“A child should not live in fear that they will be deported,” said Stephanie Hipolito, one of the student organizers of the walkout. She said her parents are U.S. citizens.
There were no immediate reports of arrests or violence.
Wednesday’s demonstrations followed a night of protests around the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the country in response to Trump’s political upset.
Demonstrators smashed storefront windows and set garbage and tires ablaze late Tuesday in downtown Oakland, California. A few miles away, students at the University of California, Berkeley protested on campus.
i wonder who’s behind these protests – hillary, bill or barack??
I haven’t been this proud to be an American in decades.
What a pack of morons! What do they hope to accomplish with their protest? Overturn the fair results of a democratic election? It figures, considering how crooked their candidate of choice is
If anyone asks you what mass-hysteria is, refer them to the events of last night and today. The masses have been programmed to believe anything but the actual reality.
Look at these losers faces. Thank g-d Trump won
Enjoy your rights? Like the right to support traditional marriage and not abominations? Like the right to support a candidate without being seen as racist, sexist, or homophobic? Like the right to tougher screening of certain groups tied to terrorism and more secure borders ? Like the right to a national media working directly with one of the nation’s major political parties? Like the right to a a state department, FBI, Department of Justice and Supreme Court that are not compromised by the politics of the day and not the Constitution and the law?
If the police wont stop this immediately it will grow.Our police must keep order on the street.
these idiots are saying what they have been programmed to say , nothing is true , if you told them the moon was made of green cheese they will say it’s a fact.
In China, Iran, N. Korea, and some other third world and Latin American countries, those demonstrators would be toast. I can’t understand why water cannons can’t be turned on them, especially when their “peaceful” demonstrations become violent. Black Lives Matter, and other radical groups are leading these demonstrations. Worse, some “Professors” and high school teachers are encouraging their students to boycott classes, and engage in their disruptive tactics. Some of those momzarim, are burning the American flag. If White demonstrators had engaged in such tactics when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, and reelected in 2012, the media would have been screaming “White Supremacists”, etc. Yet, when it is the other way around, the media gives a green light to those disruptive miscreants.
I think this is only the beginning.