Anti-Trump Protests Break Out In Major US Cities

 A day after Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections, thousands of people took to the streets Wednesday evening and into Thursday in major cities across the country to express their rejection of the election results.

One of the largest gatherings was in New York, where at least 5,000 people, according to the police, came together at the Trump tower in Manhattan, shouting "Not my president."

Around thirty people were held in New York for creating public disorder, according to the police.
Other significant gatherings were held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Chicago, Illinois, where protesters gathered in front of the Trump tower and shouted insults against the President-elect.

The capital, Washington DC, as well as Atlanta, Georgia, Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, Austin, Texas, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington and the Californian cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego also witnessed similar protests.

All of these places are known to be Democratic strongholds where Hillary Clinton won with huge margins on Tuesday.

In Portland, some 2000 people, according to the police, shouted "No KKK, no fascist USA, no Trump."
Although all the protests went ahead without any major incidents, in Oakland, California, demonstrators set barricades on fire and clashed with the police.

In Richmond, Virginia, the hometown of Senator Tim Kaine, Clinton's running mate, the demonstrators broke some window glas in the Republican Party headquarters.

Finally, in New Orleans, Louisiana, they burnt a dummy of Trump and also shattered windows in several buildings, including banks.