Dozens arrested, police cars damaged in second night of anti-Trump protests in Cal..

[ebenz47037]

My daughter and I were talking about these riots because she's wanting to move to the city (Cincinnati). I told her that she should reconsider because of the riots. Right now, the city of Cincinnati is preparing for a riot because of the trial of Ray Tensing, a white police officer who killed a black man. They closed down a lot of schools in the city in preparation for possible "protests." The verdict is supposed to be coming any time, now, on that. I'm assuming that they think the officer is going to be found not guilty, since the mayor of Cincinnati said that they're preparing for riots.

 

[Angel4Truth]

Anti-Trump Protests Rock Several Major U.S. Cities; Arrests Made In L.A.

UPDATE, THURSDAY AM with statement from Los Angeles mayor: Thousands of protestors took to the streets in multiple American cities into the night Wednesday to protest the election of Donald Trump as president. Demonstrations broke out in Los Angeles, New York City — where crowds blocked the entrance to Trump Tower for a while — Chicago, Boston, Denver, Austin, Philadelphia, Portland, OR, and Seattle, according to multiple news outlets.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a large protest beginning at Pershing Square continued to City Hall, and several protesters were arrested after streaming onto the 101 Freeway near downtown, closing it to traffic late into the night. There were reports of rocks and bottles being thrown. The Los Angeles Times reported protesters burned a Trump head in effigy and spray-painted news vans and the LAT building.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti released a statement this morning on the protests:

“One of our greatest privileges as Americans is the right to free expression. Last night, thousands of Angelenos came together publicly to make their feelings known.

I understand that the results of Tuesday’s election are painful for many of us, and this kind of engagement can be a meaningful part of the healing we need after such a long and divisive campaign. But walking and throwing objects onto freeways is dangerous for pedestrians and drivers — and it puts a heavy burden on people just trying make it home to their families or get to work safely.

I am proud that the demonstrations in Los Angeles have been mostly lawful and peaceful, and that our officers are working with demonstrators to keep people out of harm’s way. Protests can, should, and must proceed in that spirit — and I urge everyone to look out for their fellow Angelenos and put safety first.”

Protests occurred throughout the day yesterday in several locales in California, particularly the San Francisco Bay area, where demonstrations in Oakland and San Francisco are ongoing. Earlier in the day, half the student body and several faculty walked out at Berkeley High School and into the city’s downtown. Similar student walkouts were documented in neighboring Contra Costa County.

In New York City, CNN reported that Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th had been completely shut down by “thousands” of protesters, who began in front of Trump Tower but relocated after being forced to move. Here’s a look at the scene in New York as documented by one Twitter user in attendance:

Protesters have the streets shut down for blocks in every direction around Trump Tower, NYC. pic.twitter.com/nKWWOTRVEB — Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) November 10, 2016

Thousands of protesters also were on the streets of Chicago last night, marching through the city’s downtown:

Scene at State and Wacker as anti-Trump protesters march through downtown Chicago pic.twitter.com/erlWg2ThhH

— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) November 10, 2016

It begins. Protest and more protest. My niece in Chicago is already voicing what we all are feeling! #notmypresident pic.twitter.com/6TRCUOTZSU

— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) November 10, 2016

The protests come even as leading Democratic politicians have begun hinting at cooperation and reconciliation with newly-elected President Donald Trump and the GOP Congress, news that has not gone over well with demoralized supporters.

 

[Angel4Truth]

I don't believe for a second that these "protests" are real. They're bought and paid for. Everything on the left is a lie.

This looks like youre right about some of it being incited:

Trump protests intensify, as doubts swirl about spontaneity

With tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to protest Donald Trump’s presidential election victory, questions are swirling about whether the anger is as organic as advertised.

From coast to coast, demonstrators are burning flags and effigies of the president-elect while declaring that they refuse to accept Trump’s victory. But observers online are claiming that, in some cases, protesters were bused to the scenes - a telltale sign of coordination.

“Anti-Trump protestors in Austin today are not as organic as they seem,” one local in the Texas capitol tweeted Wednesday, along with photos offered as evidence.

Anti-Trump protestors in Austin today are not as organic as they seem. Here are the busses they came in. #fakeprotests #trump2016 #austin pic.twitter.com/VxhP7t6OUI
— erictucker (@erictucker) November 10, 2016

Others claimed to have found ads posted on CraigsList in which a Seattle-based non-profit was soliciting “Full-Time Activists.”

“We are looking for motivated individuals who are seeking Full-Time, Part-Time, and Permanent positions,” reads a line from the ad from Washington CAN! posted on Wednesday.

Rumors have also been circulating that the new batch of anti-Trump protesters has been bankrolled by individuals like billionaire liberal activist George Soros and groups like Moveon.org.

“WTF, @georgesoros busing in & paying #protestors to destroy cities is domestic #terrorism. #fakeProtests #BlueLivesMatter have tough days,” read one tweet in response to the viral picture of buses in Austin.

Another theory floated on social media is that many of the signs that were distributed at rallies across the country appeared to be exactly the same, indicating they were printed and distributed by an organized group.

Wednesday’s protests occurred in nearly every major city, and more are expected to come in the days leading up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Socialist #FakeProtests funded by Soros? pic.twitter.com/QQM3qPrpCY
— ValB The Un-Snope (@ValB3470) November 10, 2016

Some of the most troubling dissent was in the city of New
Orleans where protesters wound up defacing the Lee Memorial, spray painting “Die Whites Die” and “F--- Trump” and “F--- White People.”

Other messages scrawled on the memorial included "F--- Pence" and "We are ungovernable" next to a symbol of the letter "A" in a circle -- protester shorthand for anarchy.


The Lee Memorial in New orleans was defaced during protests on Wednesday night.

In Chicago, several thousand people marched through the Loop. They gathered outside Trump Tower, chanting “Not my president!” One resident, Michael Burke, told The Associated Press that the president-elect will divide the nation and stir up a deep-seated hatred.

Hundreds of protesters gathered near Philadelphia's City Hall despite chilly, wet weather. Participants — who included both supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who lost to Clinton in the primary — expressed anger at both Republicans and Democrats over the election's outcome.

In Boston, thousands of anti-Trump protesters streamed through downtown, chanting "Trump's a racist," and carrying signs that said "Impeach Trump" and "Abolish Electoral College." Clinton appeared to be on pace to win the popular vote, despite losing the electoral count that decides the presidential race.

In the Midwest, protesters gathered in Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska and Kansas City. Mo. The Des Moines Register also reported that Iowa’s capital city saw some people protest as well, though it was kept to small numbers.

On the West Coast, some of the protests became unruly with fires being started. Thousands of protesters burned a giant papier mache Trump head in Los Angeles and started fires in Oakland intersections.

Los Angeles demonstrators also beat a Trump piñata and sprayed the Los Angeles Times building and news vans with anti-Trump profanity. One protester outside LA City Hall read a sign that simply said "this is very bad."

Late in the evening Wednesday, several hundred people blocked one of the city's busiest freeways, U.S. 101 between downtown and Hollywood.

 

[Angel4Truth]

My daughter and I were talking about these riots because she's wanting to move to the city (Cincinnati). I told her that she should reconsider because of the riots. Right now, the city of Cincinnati is preparing for a riot because of the trial of Ray Tensing, a white police officer who killed a black man. They closed down a lot of schools in the city in preparation for possible "protests." The verdict is supposed to be coming any time, now, on that. I'm assuming that they think the officer is going to be found not guilty, since the mayor of Cincinnati said that they're preparing for riots.

Sad isnt it. We all need to pray for this nation. Pray hard.

The liberals are nuts. the further away from God they get the further away from the sound mind that God gives.

 

[Angel4Truth]

What you arent seeing on the news media: (Warning: language)

 

[fool]

Massive Hypocrite Alert:

, and shouting violent slogans such as “Die Whites Die” and “Kill Trump.”

I'm sure they meant that metaphorically.

 

[Angel4Truth]

I'm sure they meant that metaphorically.

Those blacks beating that white man, didnt look like a metaphor to me.

 

[Angel4Truth]

Raging Trump Protesters Threaten Violence, Blame Hillary
Millennials in New York joined demonstrators on the streets across the country to condemn the election of Donald Trump.

NEW YORK CITY — Early Wednesday evening in Manhattan’s Union Square, the chants of hundreds of anti-Trump protesters ricocheted through the park’s northern plaza: “Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!”

Twenty-four hours earlier, many in the crowd associated those words with Trump’s hate-filled rallies, where the Republican presidential candidate’s supporters called for his rival, Hillary Clinton, to be jailed.

By Wednesday evening the chant had been re-appropriated by an angry cadre protesting the election of Donald Trump.

Led by the New York chapter of an organization called Socialist Alternative, the protesters would march 30 blocks north to Trump Tower, joining forces there with three other anti-Trump groups who began their own demonstrations further uptown, including the intersectional feminist #GOPHandsOffMe movement.

Similar protests erupted across the country from Boston to Los Angeles, with many others in predominantly blue cities like Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and Washington D.C.

Police estimated more than 5,000 people turned out in New York City alone, where their main target was Trump’s unforeseen victory but also the political establishment. “United we stand, **** the system at hand!” went one resounding chant. The protesters were a fiercely progressive, overwhelmingly youthful crew of Bernie Sanders supporters and Occupy Wall Streeters on steroids.

“Trump won because of the weakness of the Democratic Party!” a Socialist Alternative organizer told the crowd at Union Square, her voice amplified by a megaphone. “I refuse to believe that this country is overrun with reactionaries—these are people who don’t have what they need in order to thrive and survive!”

The crowd erupted in cheers and hoisted their defiant “Sue the DNC” and “Not my president” posters, their apocalyptic “See you in hell, Trump” and “AmeriKKKan Nightmare” signs, the latter referencing Trump’s white-supremacist supporters.

Many expressed fear of how President Trump—whose campaign rhetoric has consistently been called out as sexist, racist, and xenophobic by the media and his detractors—could endanger marginalized communities.

“As a trans woman, I’m really scared that I might not be able to have accessible health care to pay for my hormone therapy” said Brian Villalobos, 24, who wore a pink backpack and carried a black sign mocking Trump’s campaign slogan, with the words “America has never been great” written in pastel chalk.

“I don’t believe the country has ever been that great, at least not for people of color and women,” Villalobos said as we walked north in the rain on Broadway, where cars were parked in the middle of the street. The city was evidently prepared for the demonstration, which was largely peaceful.

“I’m also a first-generation kid from Honduras,” Villalobos added, “so what does that mean for my family?”

Near Madison Square Park, a young woman in a camouflage jacket brandished her protest paraphernalia—a used mailer’s envelope with a Sharpee’d cry to “End Electoral Voting”—and explained that the Electoral College was “obsolete.”

“To my understanding, we have electoral voting because our Founding Fathers didn’t believe we were smart enough to vote on our own,” said Gigi, 24, who declined to reveal her last name. “I think that the majority of America is intelligent and educated enough to make our own decisions, and the majority of America voted for Hillary,” she said, referring to Clinton’s popular-vote victory.

Indeed, Clinton would have taken the election had she won the Electoral College, a system designed to ensure that candidates don’t overlook small states for big cities, instead seeking support from a cross-section of the electorate. Winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College, as Democrats have now done in two of the past five elections, has prompted calls for reform that would require a constitutional amendment—and everyone hates the system when their candidate loses, even if it’s not their ideal candidate.

Up ahead, people carrying rainbow LGBTQ flags and orange “Socialist Alternative” ones snaked over to Sixth Avenue, where traffic had stopped to accommodate the demonstration. City buses honked in unison with shouted slogans, from the feminist (“end rape culture”) to the profane (“**** your wall”), while taxi and Uber drivers exchanged high-fives and fist-bumps with marchers.

New Yorkers hate traffic, but on Wednesday evening they hated Donald Trump more. The rare unsmiling drivers were called out by protesters on more than one occasion. “Tax the rich!” one yelled at a man sulking behind the wheel of his Range Rover; others cursed and rushed toward a car whose driver had implored them to “get a life.”

Ten blocks south of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, organizers began panicking that much of the group had fallen behind. There were calls for the front to slow down, the back to keep up, and the onlookers—tourists gawping or taking videos on their smartphones while others cheered—to join the march.

Hustling to keep up with the crush of people ahead, a 23-year-old woman in a long flannel shirt and winter hat pulled over her ears struck up a conversation with me, introducing herself only as “Kitty.”

“Trump and Pence should definitely be assassinated,” Kitty offered, as if relaying what she’d eaten for lunch that day. If no one took them out, she anticipated a “huge ****ing Holocaust.”

Around 8 p.m., Kitty pushed her way through throngs of people as foot traffic halted a block south of Trump Tower, where a chorus of “**** your wall” chants echoed through the crowd, some of them aimed at a line of police officers cordoning off the streets from the sidewalk, effectively forming a barrier to Trump’s gilded headquarters. Out front, protesters waved a large rainbow flag and taunted the president-elect with a blow-up doll of his likeness dangling from a noose on a wooden poll.

Andrew Heyning, a 19-year-old student at New York University, said he felt “morally defeated that half of the country would elect someone who is such an awful candidate and human being. But tonight, this gives me hope!”

He gestured to the scene around us—the hanging blow-up doll and gleeful protesters who had pulled the city into their orbit, with many climbing construction sites and street signs to get a better view—before breaking into a “**** Donald Trump” chant. He and dozens of others thrust their middle fingers in the air toward several tower residents, who looked down on the braying mob from their balconies.

“The most important takeaway from all of this is that Trump duped his anti-establishment supporters into believing he was just like them,” said 18-year-old Tom Miritello, a fellow NYU student who had marched with Heyning from Union Square. He stressed that he was not, however, blind to Hillary Clinton’s troubling relationship with the truth and had “read the emails WikiLeaks published.”

But as a gay man, Miritello said he feared that a Trump presidency would threaten LGBTQ rights and reverse what he estimated to be nearly 80 years of social progress. “We’re going back to the ’40s, past Cold War fear-mongering, to where a racial divide defines our nation,” he told me.

Next to us, two young women hoisted a bloody pair of women’s underwear—a nod to Trump’s shuddering revulsion when it comes to women’s reproductive functions. To Trump, women who menstruate are interchangeable with monsters (more than a year ago, he suggested that Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”).

Protesters cheered again and again each time a helicopter passed overhead, sometimes directly over Trump Tower, as if in solidarity with their pissed-off city. Several speculated aloud what the king in his castle thought of the scene.

“You know he loves this,” said Cody Davis, a 24-year-old student at the New School who wore a corduroy jacket and a hoop ring through his nasal cartilage. He suggested to a fellow protester that they storm Trump Tower: “That seems peaceful enough for today.”

By 9:15, people began spilling out onto 57th Street, though most stayed to disturb the peace for several more hours.

If the map of blue millennial voters in the election and strong student turnout at New York's protests were any indication, America’s youths will do everything they can in the next four years to prevent President Trump from being President Trump.

I love some of the "fears" and where was this kind of reaction to democrats knowingly poisoning kids in flint michigan?

They dont matter, but hormone treatments for perverts do...

Sorry illegals, if you dont like trump, good, go home.

 

[kmoney]

This looks like youre right about some of it being incited:

Trump protests intensify, as doubts swirl about spontaneity

I'm failing to see the big problem with most of that.

From coast to coast, demonstrators are burning flags and effigies of the president-elect while declaring that they refuse to accept Trump’s victory. But observers online are claiming that, in some cases, protesters were bused to the scenes - a telltale sign of coordination.

Aren't lots of protests coordinated?

Others claimed to have found ads posted on CraigsList in which a Seattle-based non-profit was soliciting “Full-Time Activists.”

I clicked the link and it seems like more of a real job than simply being paid to participate in fake protests.

Rumors have also been circulating that the new batch of anti-Trump protesters has been bankrolled by individuals like billionaire liberal activist George Soros and groups like Moveon.org.

“WTF, @georgesoros busing in & paying #protestors to destroy cities is domestic #terrorism. #fakeProtests #BlueLivesMatter have tough days,” read one tweet in response to the viral picture of buses in Austin.

That seems like pure speculation.

Another theory floated on social media is that many of the signs that were distributed at rallies across the country appeared to be exactly the same, indicating they were printed and distributed by an organized group.

Again, coordination doesn't seem like a major deal. Maybe not "organic" but coordination doesn't mean that they are being paid.


Also, why would liberals pay for violent protests which would only damage their cause? :idunno:




That isn't to say that I support these protests though. Obviously Clinton, Obama, Bernie, and Warren have to show at least some level of support for Trump, but I have appreciated the calls to keep an open mind and give Trump a chance to lead. Obviously there are many who aren't willing to do that. Some form of protest or marching is one thing, but already saying things like "not my president" shows no willingness to give Trump any room. And obviously the violence and calls for assassination are way over the line.

 

[ClimateSanity]

You take the cake for mental gymnastics in order to keep disturbing info under control.

 

[kmoney]

You take the cake for mental gymnastics in order to keep disturbing info under control.

I assume this was directed at me so...

These protests are extremely disturbing. What I'm not buying is the conspiracy that Soros is paying for them to happen.

 

[fool]

I assume this was directed at me so...

These protests are extremely disturbing. What I'm not buying is the conspiracy that Soros is paying for them to happen.

Trump is probably behind them.

 

[Crucible]

And that's why it was good that Trump was elected, because those are the people who were running the country :wave2:

Whatever happened to all those Californians saying they would 'leave the country'? I was hoping for that

 

[patrick jane]

I assume this was directed at me so...

These protests are extremely disturbing. What I'm not buying is the conspiracy that Soros is paying for them to happen.

These protests are getting smaller crowds already today, they will get tired of protesting with no results. It means nothing. most of them are under 30 and they probably stayed home on election day.

 

[kmoney]

These protests are getting smaller crowds already today, they will get tired of protesting with no results. It means nothing. most of them are under 30 and they probably stayed home on election day.

What results could they have been trying for? I don't think it was about getting anything changed. Obviously the election won't change. It's probably simply about making their views known.

 

[patrick jane]

What results could they have been trying for? I don't think it was about getting anything changed. Obviously the election won't change. It's probably simply about making their views known.

Well, burning flags, police vehicles and property reminds me of jobless young folks, radical leftists, BLM, college kids and freaks and the many other "protests" we've seen for the last 2 years.

 

[Tambora]

What would happen if martial law was was enacted before January?
Would there still be a change of the guard?

 

[patrick jane]

What would happen if martial law was was enacted before January?
Would there still be a change of the guard?

Hmmmmm :think:

 

[Tambora]

Hmmmmm :think:

I'm not sure how that would work.
But if it could postpone the change until martial law is lifted, then I can see a benefit of the left funding and encouraging rioting.

 

[patrick jane]

I'm not sure how that would work.
But if it could postpone the change until martial law is lifted, then I can see a benefit of the left funding and encouraging rioting.

That's exactly what I thought after I saw your question/post. Left wing millionaires might pay for more protesters or at least support them somehow. Scary thought because it would mean Civil War