Anti-Donald Trump Protests Continue Thursday

Protests against Donald Trump's presidential election continued Thursday across the country, and more were were planned for the evening, as demonstrators showed their opposition to Trump's comments about Hispanics, blacks and Muslims during his highly charged and divisive primary and general election campaign.

At Mission High School in San Francisco, students walked out of class to walk through the city's Mission District neighborhood, home to many undocumented students who fear being deported under a Trump presidency.

The students walked through the streets, chanting and blocking traffic.

Demonstrators in Milwaukee will likely be met by controversial sheriff David Clarke, who could have a larger role in a Trump administration. Clarke tweeted that "radical anarchists must be quelled" because “there is no legitimate reason to protest the will of the people.”

In Tampa, a student protest group was scheduled to meet at a federal courthouse to fight back.

Students for a Democratic Society says its aim is to send the message that “we will not allow racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all other forms of oppression,” according to an event announcement.

They came a day after demonstrators shut down roads and bridges in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities across the country. Those protests weren't limited to blue states, as people in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas organized too.

Many of the demonstrations Wednesday targeted Trump's luxury hotels and towers across the country.

At Trump Tower in New York, Trump's signature building where he lives and made his campaign headquarters, people chanted, "Not my president!" "Dump Trump!" and "Donald Trump, go away! Racist, sexist, anti-gay!"

The NYPD barricaded Trump Tower from the crowd, blocked off city streets and even evacuated a city bus that got stuck in the crowd. Witnesses reported a line of garbage trucks parked in front of Trump Tower to prevent car bombs.

Despite the event encompassing a larger area than originally planned, the protest remained under control. A few demonstrators did climb on top of traffic signal poles and a bus shelter. One bus shelter also was vandalized with "F--k Trump" scrawled in red across a window.

In Los Angeles, protesters poured onto portions of Hollywood's 101 Freeway, prompting its closure. At least 13 people were arrested, authorities said, though the crowd numbered in the thousands.

Some 1,500 students at a high school in Berkeley, California, staged a walkout and rally during the school day.

Demonstrations were hardly limited to blue states.

Groups of protesters melded into a mass and shut down traffic on Charlotte Avenue in Nashville just before rush hour Wednesday.

A group of 30 protesters, organized on Facebook by 17-year-old Nick McKenzie, according to The Tennessean, met up with a second group of Fisk University students near the Capitol, along with members of Food Not Bombs, and then continued to Eighth Avenue and Charlotte and marched west, briefly blocking access to Interstate 40 near 12th Avenue before moving on.

Hundreds of University of Texas at Austin students hit the streets in a five-hour protest over the election of Trump the night before.

The gathering fronting the university tower was a part of a larger assemblage of students that meandered from campus, through downtown streets, on to the grounds of the state Capitol and back again. The protests began at around 11 a.m. on Wednesday and continued until after 5 p.m.

"This is not the end!" a student leader shouted, his words repeated by the crowd in unison. "This is only the beginning!" Another chant: "What we realize is that love is more powerful than hate! Love Trumps hate!"

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