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    Trump win sparks student walkouts and angry protests across California

    Trump win sparks student walkouts and angry protests across California

    November 9, 2016 2:40 PM




    At Berkeley High School, about 1,500 students, or half of the entire student body,
    walked out of class before 9 a.m. in protest of Trump’s victory, Berkeley Unified
    School District officials said.


    Protests of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election took place across California on Wednesday, with students at several Bay Area high schools walking out in the middle of class and a throng of young demonstrators taking to the steps of Los Angeles’ City Hall.

    The demonstrations — which mirrored protests from Seattle to Pittsburgh — followed protests in the pre-dawn hours in which crowds openly disavowed the president-elect, with a few protesters resorting to vandalism.

    At Berkeley High School, about 1,500 students — half the entire student body — walked out of class after first period began at 8 a.m., Berkeley Unified School District officials said.

    Students tweeted “#NotMyPresident” and pledged to unify. Others chanted, “Si, se puede,” Spanish for “Yes, we can,” and waved Mexican flags, according to posts on social media.

    “It’s not the first time we’ve had a walkout. We know what to expect, we know what we need to do,” said Berkeley Unified spokesman Charles Burress.
    School and district administrators and faculty accompanied the students as they marched from the school through downtown and onto the UC Berkeley campus.



    “Our primary concern is to make sure they are safe during the school day,” Burress said.

    District officials were not making any plans to discipline students, he said.

    In Contra Costa County, El Cerrito police cautioned drivers to look out for high school students in the road.

    “Students from High Schools in west Contra Costa County are conducting walkouts today in various locations over election results,” the department said in a statement. “We urge drivers to use caution if you happen upon any of these groups.”

    Earlier in the day, after Trump delivered his victory speech in New York, an estimated 2,000 people rallied at UCLA, where two separate demonstrations merged into one, said UCLA police Sgt. Miguel Banuelos.


    Berkeley High students marched through the UC Berkeley campus Thursday in support of
    racial justice. Photo: Lance Knobel


    The group marched from the campus through Westwood Village to a federal building on Wilshire Boulevard, Banuelos said. There were no arrests. At about 1 a.m., a Trump piñata was set on fire in a trash can outside a Westwood Boulevard store.

    N.J. Omorogieva, 19, said she was “heartbroken” by the election’s result when she spotted the crowd in Westwood while walking home.
    “Of course, I joined in,” she said. “To give hugs to people who were overcome by devastation.”

    In downtown L.A., a crowd gathered near City Hall and property was defaced, including a fence scrawled with graffiti insulting Trump. Around 2 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, a crowd of at least 100 young demonstrators flocked to the steps of City Hall.

    About 200 people demonstrated near Cal State L.A., and 50 others were at Pershing Square, said LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman. There were no arrests.

    The mood was more buoyant at the president-elect’s star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, where a small crowd of approximately 30 Trump supporters gathered early Wednesday morning to celebrate his upset victory.


    Students gathered outside a Berkeley high school on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (KGO-TV)

    Diane Mendez, 23, a Trump supporter who volunteered at a polling place, said she came to celebrate what she saw as a turning point.
    “He said he would bring jobs back to America. We all need jobs,” Mendez said. “Who doesn’t need jobs?”

    In Oakland, demonstrators smashed a window at the Oakland Tribune newsroom and ignited trash containers and tires, police said. Small fires also prompted the closure of a Bay Area Rapid Transit station.

    The crowd broke windows on five businesses and further vandalized another, said Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson. One citation was issued, but no one was arrested, she said.

    Protesters also burned Trump in effigy, KNTV reported.

    Protests in the Bay Area city were centered downtown and there was a march along Highway 24, where a woman was struck by an SUV. She was taken to a hospital with “major injuries,” California Highway Patrol Sgt. Matt Langford told the San Francisco Chronicle.

    At UC Santa Barbara, hundreds marched near the campus, with some chanting, “Not my president.”

    One person carried a Mexican flag, according to video posted by the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus.

    About 500 students marched through the La Jolla campus of UC San Diego, protesting Trump’s win and chanting his name with an expletive.

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...109-story.html

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    Anger over Trump explodes; protesters set fires, smash glass

    Anger over Trump explodes; protesters set fires, smash glass

    November 9, 2016



    OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Demonstrators angry about the election of Donald Trump smashed windows and set garbage bins on fire early Wednesday in downtown Oakland, California, joining protesters elsewhere in the country who swarmed streets in response to the election. Other protests were generally peaceful.

    In Oregon, dozens of people blocked traffic in downtown Portland and forced a delay for trains on two light-rail lines. Media reports said the crowd grew to about 300 people, including some who sat in the middle of a road. The crowd of anti-Trump protesters burned American flags and chanted, "That's not my president."

    In Seattle, about 100 protesters gathered in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, blocked roads and set a trash bin on fire.

    In Pennsylvania, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh students marched through the streets, with some in the crowd calling for unity. Campus protests also erupted at the University of Texas, the University of Connecticut, the University of California, Berkeley and other University of California campuses.

    On Twitter, the hashtag "NotMyPresident" had been used nearly half a million times.

    The Oakland protest grew to about 250 people by late Tuesday. Police Officer Marco Marquez said protesters damaged five businesses, breaking windows and spraying graffiti. No arrests were made.

    A woman was struck by a car and severely injured when protesters got onto a highway, the California Highway Patrol said. Demonstrators vandalized the driver's SUV before officers intervened. The highway was closed for about 20 minutes.

    Oakland is a hotbed of violent protest in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two years ago, demonstrators briefly shut down two freeways, vandalized police cars and looted businesses when a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson.

    Nearly 80 people were arrested after a night in 2010 that saw rioters use metal bats to break store windows, set fires and loot after a white transit police officer was acquitted of murder and convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the slaying of an unarmed black man.

    Elsewhere in California, more than 1,000 students at Berkeley High School staged a walk-out and marched to the campus of the University of California.

    Students also walked out of two high schools in Oakland, a high school in Boulder, Colorado and a high school in Phoenix, Arizona.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vic...122206127.html

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    DC College Students Burn Flag to Protest Trump

    Fox News - ‎2 hours ago‎
    College students and others burned an American flag on American University's campus in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon in a move to denounce Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election a day earlier. "Hey hey! Ho ho!
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    Anti-Trump protests erupt at UMass Amherst

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    After Donald Trump was elected the next US president, scores of students staged a protest at the University of Massachusetts campus in ...
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    Yes, appears to be plenty of protesting but I'd bet California wins with the Mexican flags waving but then we also have the most illegals. And what is this really accomplishing for them? Not going to convince others to change their minds and the people of this country have spoken by electing a new president. Get over it!
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    The 10 p.m. news in San Diego said the Anti-Trump protest here was organized by an anti-war group.
    I never heard of them, so I already forgot their name.
    10 to 15 arrested so far. More arrest to come.
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    This is one of the reasons we have immigration controls. It's a shame so much of California refused to enforce and abide those laws. Well, not to worry, where a state fails, the federal government is there to do what the states didn't or couldn't do.

    IT WILL HAPPEN FAST, SO GET READY CALIFORNIA!!

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    The federal government has the Border Patrol because it is the federal government's responsibility to control the border and enforce immigration laws. If they had done so after Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal aliens no state would have any illegal aliens to deal with. But the federal government didn't do their job and now we have a mess to clean up.
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    Yes, we do have a mess to clean up. The biggest mess of all is in California which is where this clean-up needs to start and start fast. And this mess is why states and local law enforcement need to enforce US immigration law which is why Congress should pass the bill that clarifies their clear right to do so.

    CAVALRY IS COMING, CALIFORNIA!!!

    IT WILL HAPPEN FAST, SO GET READY!!!

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    Cut off the Federal Funding to California on Day One

    Have the buses ready emptying out the jails and prison's of illegals and deliver them to the border.

    Start with the ones deporting back to Mexico...then load up the military C130's going back to Central America.

    Then repeat this operation in AZ, NM, TX and so on!

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