MEP: The US Presidential elections result in the favor of Donald Trump elected as President has triggered to a huge protest on Wednesday in at least 10 cities to march against his victory.
They chanted anti-Donald Trump slogans. They flooded city streets. They gathered near the White House, disheartened and dismayed.
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 on Central Park West.
In downtown Chicago, several thousand people marched to that city’s Trump Tower, chanting “Not my president!” and “Our bodies, our choice!”.
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Chicago police closed roads in the area, blocking the demonstrators’ path.
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.”
Protesters criticized Trump’s campaign pledge to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep immigrants from entering the United States illegally.
In Washington, DC, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the White House for a candlelight vigil before marching to the new Trump International Hotel, which is located a few blocks away on Pennsylvania Avenue.
“We’re (mad) so we’re out here in the streets,” said demonstrator Omar Aqeel, a 27-year-old film producer who lives in Brooklyn.
While he and other demonstrators said they were aware that protests could not reverse the election, they said they still felt it would have an effect on the future.
“I hope it rallies everyone together as a wake up call,” Aqeel said.
In Portland, marchers chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” as they trekked through downtown.
About 1,500 students and teachers gathered in the courtyard of Berkeley High School, in a San Francisco Bay Area city known for its liberal politics, and later on marched toward the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Berenabas Lukas, a 15-year-old student who participated in the rally, said he felt less safe since President-elect Trump.
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