US election: Donald Trump`s presidential win sparks tense protests across major US cities

  10 November 2016    Read: 1343
US election: Donald Trump`s presidential win sparks tense protests across major US cities
In cities across the US, protesters have gathered on Wednesday night for peaceful demonstrations against the Trump victory and the rhetoric employed by the now president-elect during the campaign.
In New York city, several thousand people marched from Union Square to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, blocking streets and prompting police to assemble hasty barricades. At least four arrests were made when marchers were moved on to Trump International Hotel and Tower, Trump’s property on Central Park West.

In downtown Chicago, several thousand people marched through the Loop to that city’s Trump Tower, chanting “Not my president!” and “Our bodies, our choice!”.

Thousands of demonstrators were also reported in Boston, heading from Boston Common to the Massachusetts statehouse.

Other demonstrations have been taking place in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Washington DC, where a crowd massed outside a newly opened Trump hotel and others gathered outside the White House.

Smaller marches were reported in St Paul, Minnesota; Richmond, Virginia; Kansas City; Omaha, Nebraska; and Austin, Texas.

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