Protests against Trump similar to Anti-Viet Nam era protesters were inevitable given the rhetoric of Trump's compaign. It is very logical that these kinds of protests will dog him the rest of his presidency for 100 to 1000 different reasons. What is amazing to me is that people are against Trump are going to be mostly women, races other than white, and Muslims or Secular Christians of any denomination here in the U.S. and all around the world.
And since they don't want to lose ANY of the rights they have now, they will continue to protest ongoing until they keep the rights they have and add new ones as well. If you didn't see this coming where have you been living?
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Peaceful protests across the country Friday were partially undermined by flares of violence and property …
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Protests, Violence Flare Around Inaugural Ceremony
Ninety-five arrests have been made in D.C., and two officers were injured in Friday’s clashes.
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Peaceful protests across the country Friday were partially undermined
by flares of violence and property damage in Washington, D.C., where
two officers were injured and over 200 people were arrested.
Throughout the day in different parts of the capital, police used pepper spray, batons and other crowd-control devices to disperse protesters. Some people vandalized buildings and even set a limousine ablaze as day turned to night and President Donald Trump made his way down the inaugural parade route.
Throughout the day in different parts of the capital, police used pepper spray, batons and other crowd-control devices to disperse protesters. Some people vandalized buildings and even set a limousine ablaze as day turned to night and President Donald Trump made his way down the inaugural parade route.
Protests in other parts of the city ― and the country ― remained relatively peaceful.
Just an hour before Trump took the presidential oath of office,
tweets from D.C. showed people smashing windows at a Bank of America
location. A Starbucks was vandalized at the intersection of 13th and I Streets NW.
It was unclear who was actually doing the damage, and the identities of the vandals weren’t released. But police described them as an “organized group” with the sole purpose of destroying property with “crowbars, hammers and asps” about a mile away from the National Mall.
It was unclear who was actually doing the damage, and the identities of the vandals weren’t released. But police described them as an “organized group” with the sole purpose of destroying property with “crowbars, hammers and asps” about a mile away from the National Mall.
“Two
officers have been injured related to vandalism and destruction of
property, and 95 arrests made at this point,” Lt. Sean Conboy of the
Metropolitan Police Department told The Huffington Post. That number has
since risen to 217 arrests, according to ABC News.
Police were seen
pepper-spraying people in the morning as the expectation of peace at the
D.C. protests began to crumble. By the afternoon, smoke and explosions
were seen amid a chaotic scene between demonstrators and police.
“It’s a bunch of anarchists,” said one Secret Service agent. “Fun times. It’s what we expected.”
Two women were wiping the
pepper spray out of a man’s eyes at 13th and L Streets NW, as tears
poured down his cheeks. “No media!” they shouted.
There were also moments of levity, if perhaps unintentional.
“They can’t arrest all of us!” shouted one protester, a man clad in all black.
His colleagues around him burst out laughing. “Of course they can,” one said.
The man tried to
explain. “They don’t have the plastic handcuffs!” he shouted. “They can
beat the shit out of us, but they can’t arrest all of us!”
Jessica Schulberg / The Huffington Post
The city was also host to
several peaceful demonstrations. Protesters had any number of grievances
with their new president, be it his policies, his Cabinet nominations
or his encouragement of violence during the 2016 campaign.
“The man is
so vile that regardless of his policies, I couldn’t have voted for
him,” said Mary Lou Dicken, 68, who traveled to Washington from
Cumberland, Maryland, with her son. “I don’t care what things he was
going to offer me. He was such a soulless piece of shit that I wouldn’t
have voted for him anyway.”
Trump supporters at the scene, like Doug Rahm of Bikers for Trump Philadelphia, yelled at protesters to stop complaining.
“Get a job,” an Associated Press reporter heard Rahm say. “Stop crying, snowflakes, Trump won.”
Meanwhile, in New York, schoolchildren took to the streets of Brooklyn hours before the ceremony to protest.
Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post
The third- and fifth-grade
students of PS 261 held signs calling for peace and open arms for
immigrants. They sang “This Land Is Your Land” and gave speeches
inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.
“We do this every year
around Martin Luther King Jr. Day,” said 8-year-old Micah. “But this
year it just happened to occur on Trump’s Inauguration Day. We are here
to stop hate.”
Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post
Many more were preparing to head to Trump Tower in Manhattan. Those protests were organized by local politicians
to resist Trump’s Cabinet nominees and police use of stop and frisk, as
well as congressional Republicans’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care
Act.
Los Angeles was preparing for thousands of protesters downtown. The “United Against Hate-Inauguration March” had garnered more than 15,000 attendees on Facebook.
Throngs of demonstrators
gathered at University of California, Berkeley, some of whom had staged a
walkout from class at the university and local high schools, they told
HuffPost. Later, thousands marched toward Oakland City Hall.
The protests on Friday are expected to be small compared to the women’s marches on Saturday in D.C., Los Angeles and New York. More than 370 “Sister Marches” are planned across the country, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to attend in D.C. alone.
Andy Campbell and Willa
Frej reported from New York City. Ryan Grim and Jessica Schulberg
reported from Washington, D.C. Michael McLaughlin reported from
Berkeley, California. Ryan Grenoble contributed reporting.
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