Anti-Trump protestors burn effigy, hurl Molotov cocktails at police
Protestors have rolled into their second day of demonstrations and burned an effigy of Donald Trump's head, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and targeted Trump buildings in massive street rallies.
Tens of thousands of mostly young anti-Trump protesters have refused to accept the real estate mogul as their new president and filled the streets from California to New York.
There were 25 rallies across the country, with California appeared to have the greatest number.
CALIFORNIA PROTESTS
In Oakland, 7,000 demonstrators filled the smoke-filled streets and hurled Molotov cocktails, rocks and fireworks at police.
They threw bottles at officers and torched a police car as authorities fired back with tear gas.
Firefighters extinguished 40 fires trash and street fires that had smoldered a highway and set downtown LA in a blaze.
Demonstrators in downtown Los Angeles stormed to City Hall where they waved around hate signs, chanted and then burned a giant Trump effigy.
Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said three officers were injured and at least 30 people were arrested, CNN reported.
Emergency workers extinguished about 40 trash and street fires that had smoldered on a highway and set downtown LA in a blaze.
"Throughout the evening, the large group splintered into smaller groups that began vandalising numerous businesses in the downtown area," Watson told local media.
On Thursday morning (local time), thousands marched onto the 101 Freeway and blocked traffic and at least 13 protesters were arrested, Los Angeles police said.
In Santa Ana, police fired rubber bullets to contain a crowd of 200 to 300 people, ten of whom were arrested.
One demonstrator ignited fireworks in the middle of a street while being confronted at a distance by police and sheriff's deputies in riot gear, ABC 7 reported.
"He's for the wealthy, he's not for the people," one man at the scene said of Trump.
NEW YORK PROTESTS
Lady Gaga was among the 5,000 anti-Trump demonstrators who marched outside the real estate mogul's home and Trump Tower.
New York Police said at least 15 people were arrested and several people burned flags and climbed light poles outside Trump Tower in Manhattan.
"My body, my choice", "not my president" and "hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go" demonstrators yelled.
Other protestors met around Union Square and marched for 40 blocks and arrived at Trump Tower chanting: "Donald Trump go away, racist, sexist, anti-gay".
A 29-year-old Alex Conway protestor stood outside Trump's home and held a sign that read "not my president".
"This sign is not to say he isn't the president of the US, but for two days I can use my emotion to be against this outcome and to express that he's not mine," he said.
Overall 65 people were arrested in the city and the majority were charged with disorderly conduct, a few were charged with resisting arrest, ABC7 reported.
Fifth Avenue and Columbus Circle had been closed but were reopened early Thursday morning and a handful of protesters remain outside Trump International Hotel and Tower.
BOSTON
nNot My President," "no Fascist," "we will not be silenced," and "no KKK," while carrying signs that read "he will never be my president."
Meaghan Schaefer, a 19-year-old student at Emerson College, told WCVB: "we were so close to seeing the first woman become president and she lost to a man who has no political experience, who doesn't represent the majority in this country".
WASHINGTON D.C.
Protesters in Washington chanted, "no Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA," as they marched downtown and gathered outside the newly-opened Trump International Hotel, CNN reported.
A protestor was arrested and demonstrators from the group Avaaz held a "better than bigotry" sign outside the White House.
One jogger shouted an expletive about President-elect as he passed the Trump International Hotel on Thursday, just blocks from the White House.
Students at American University also protested on campus.
"You saw all of the hate was coming with him, and you were just hoping that that would never come to fruition, and it has," anti-Trump protester Will Rossi told Chicago's ABC7.
No-fly zone around Manhattan's Trump Tower
It comes as police have thrown up metal security fences around Trump's new Washington hotel and a line of concrete blocks shielding the front of New York's Trump Tower.
The Federal Aviation Administration has imposed no-fly zone and banned any aircraft to fly over his home and workplace, Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue in New York on November 9.
A Trump campaign representative did not respond to requests for comment on the protests but Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor called the demonstrators "a bunch of spoiled cry-babies."
"If you're looking at the real left-wing loonies on the campus, it's the professors not the students," Giuliani told Fox News.
"So these are the ones who are more influenced by the professors .... Calm down, things are not as bad as you think."
