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Anti-Trump Protests in Arizona and New York
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Anti-Trump Protesters Block Road in Arizona and Clash With Police in New York
Protesters in Arizona
blocked a major road leading to a Donald J. Trump rally on Saturday
outside Phoenix, while anti-Trump demonstrators in New York clashed with
the police on a march toward Trump Tower.
In Arizona, about 50
to 75 protesters and three parked cars blocked Shea Boulevard, an artery
leading into Fountain Hills, the suburb where Mr. Trump spoke on
Saturday afternoon, which led to traffic delays in the area.
Some protesters
chained themselves to the cars, according to a spokesman from the
Maricopa County sheriff’s office. Others stood in the street, holding
signs and chanting as the temperature climbed into the 80s and anxious
drivers sat stuck in their cars.
After multiple
requests that the protesters clear the road, sheriff’s deputies began
towing cars, and three people were arrested.
“They tried to get us to move,” said one of the protesters, Tomás Robles Jr. “We told them we were not going to move.”
Eventually many of
them began marching to the rally, but did not make it close to the
stage. Instead they marched single file across a nearby lawn, then found
themselves surrounded by sheriff’s deputies on horseback and
all-terrain vehicles on one side, and Trump supporters on the other,
chanting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
When the rally began,
the Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio — who like Mr. Trump has a
hard-line stance on immigration, many fans and many critics — introduced
the candidate and spoke briefly about the demonstrators.
“Because of them, we
had to get a little more sunshine, but we made it,” Sheriff Arpaio said.
“Three of them are in jail,” he added, to cheers.
The rally itself was
tame by Mr. Trump’s standards, and was not disrupted once. He spoke from
a stage on the edge of a lake where a giant fountain spits water high
in the air at the top of every hour.
With the Arizona
primary coming Tuesday, Mr. Trump urged rallygoers to “go vote, go
vote,” then closed with a message for them: “You know where we’re going
to win? And this is for the people of Phoenix, Arizona: We’re going to
win at the border.”
Protesters Block Road in Arizona
Protesters carrying American and Mexican
flags blocked a road to a Donald J. Trump campaign event in Phoenix,
where he was campaigning with Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
By REUTERS on Publish Date March 19, 2016.
In New York, several
hundred protesters gathered at Columbus Circle outside the Trump
International Hotel there. One brandished a sign that read, “No Wall
Around the Land of the Free.” Another sign suggested a wall be built
around Mr. Trump.
Gina Rodriguez, 28, of Harlem, said, “When Trump talks, I feel like he is targeting my community.”
The first conflicts
took place just after 1:30 p.m. as the crowd sought to cross 59th Street
and head south at the Avenue of the Americas. They chanted, “Dump
Trump” and “Don’t give into racist fear.” A line of police officers,
scooters and barricades blocked their way as some protesters shouted
that they had the light. Then, after a countdown, a mass of protesters
surged forward, with those behind digging their heels into the sidewalk
and pushing with their shoulders against the demonstrators in front of
them.
The police pushed
back, and for about 10 minutes, the two sides formed a heaving scrum
with metal barricades being used as fulcrums and both police officers
and protesters losing their footing and tumbling to the ground. At one
point, a stream of pepper spray came from the ranks of the police
officers, sending protesters reeling back and rubbing their eyes.
A few moments later,
the march toward Trump Tower resumed, with protesters chanting, waving
signs and beating drums and occasionally darting into the roadway. They
were followed by police officers in cars and on foot, including one
carrying an acoustic device that issued recorded warnings that blocking
vehicles could lead to arrest.
At least two
protesters were grabbed by police officers and placed into handcuffs.
When the crowd made it to Trump Tower, the police tried to herd them
into a protest zone, but instead the protesters quickly moved on, with
many of them heading back to Columbus Circle, where they resumed their
chants.
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Donald Trump on Mitt Romney: ‘Are You Sure He’s a Mormon?’
Speaking in Salt Lake
City — home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’
headquarters — Donald J. Trump questioned Mitt Romney’s membership in
the faith on Friday, asking a crowd at a rally, “Are you sure he’s a
Mormon?”
Mr. Romney, who was
the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, comes from a prominent
Mormon family, and he remains popular in Utah, which has a sizable
Mormon population.
After first praising
Mormons generally — “And do I love the Mormons, O.K.?” Mr. Trump said.
“Do I love the Mormons?” — Mr. Trump added that he has many friends in
Salt Lake City. But he noted pointedly that Mr. Romney, who has been
urging Republicans to deny him the presidential nomination, is not one
of them.
“Did he choke? Did
this guy choke? He’s a choke artist,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Mr.
Romney’s loss to President Obama in 2012. Mr. Trump added, “Are you
sure he’s a Mormon? Are we sure?”
Though Mr. Trump
endorsed Mr. Romney in 2012, the two men are far from friendly now.
Earlier this month, Mr. Romney delivered a scathing broadside against
Mr. Trump, calling him “a fraud” and “a phony” and urging the Republican Party to unite around an alternative candidate.
And on Friday, Mr. Romney, who owns a home in Holladay, Utah, wrote in a Facebook message that he planned to vote for Senator Ted Cruz of Texas
in the state’s Republican caucus Tuesday, as part of an effort to deny
Mr. Trump the party’s nomination at its convention in July.
Mr. Trump has
questioned the religious affiliation of his rivals before, including Ben
Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist. But
after Pope Francis recently suggested
that Mr. Trump was not Christian because of his promise to build a wall
along the Mexican border, the real estate mogul took offense, saying it was “disgraceful” for a religious leader to question someone else’s faith.
In his remarks Friday
evening, Mr. Trump also criticized Mr. Cruz. “Is he really a natural
born citizen? I mean, give me a break,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Mr.
Cruz, who was born in Canada and recently renounced his Canadian
citizenship. “He was a citizen of Canada, can you believe it?
“He was a joint — he
was U.S. and he was Canada,” Mr. Trump continued. “And you know, that’s
not the way it’s supposed to work. You’re supposed to be born, like,
here.”
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