Thousands of protesters swarmed
the streets of several major cities to voice their opposition to
Donald Trump, who less than 24 hours earlier stunned the world to become the
45th person elected president of the United States.
Protesters in Chicago chanted
"Not my president" and "F--- Trump" outside Trump
International Hotel & Tower in what seemed like a grand uprising — one in
which minority groups that have felt targeted by Trump over the past 18 months
hoped to send a direct message to the president-elect.
"I'm here today because I'm
speechless at what happened," Rebecca Gomez, 22, told reporters. "I'm
Mexican, but I was born in the United States. I'm afraid people won't care
about that, though. I'm afraid they will be violent."
In New York, thousands of
protesters could be heard chanting and banging drums as they marched past
Rockefeller Center up Sixth Avenue, barely even acknowledging the rain.
It's horrible that we have to do
this," said Trevor Wheeler, 18, of North Dakota, who now lives in New York
City. "I identify as a queer person. I will most likely lose my right to
get married. ... I will not be able to present myself the way I want to."
Some chanted "Racist,
sexist, anti-gay! Donald Trump must go away!" and "F--- your
wall!"
At least 30 people were arrested,
NBC New York reported, quoting police. Most of the arrests appeared to be for
disorderly conduct.
Besides New York and Chicago,
protests took place in many other cities :
More than one hundred people shut down a
major highway through downtown Los Angeles it was
reported.
A crowd that police estimated at several
thousand marched through downtown Seattle chanting "not my
president" and carrying signs reading "Fight Racism" and
"Impeach Drumpy," NBC station KING reported.
Dozens of young people chanting "Hey
hey! Ho ho! White supremacy's got to go!" burned a U.S. flag on the campus
of American University in Washington, D.C., NBC Washington reported.
At Berkeley High School in Berkeley,
California, which has significant populations of Hispanics and
African-Americans, students staged a walkout while chanting "Love trumps
hate" and "Not our president."
In the East Liberty neighborhood of
Pittsburgh, hundreds of protesters chanting "No Trump" and "Not
My President" marched down Bond Boulevard bearing a
banner reading, "We must stand together against fascism," NBC station
WPXI reported.
Source: Nbcnews
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