New York: Thousands of people protested across the United States on Wednesday over Republican Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential election, blasting his campaign rhetoric around immigrants, Muslims and other groups.
On Wednesday evening, thousands of protesters thronged streets in midtown Manhattan while at a park further downtown hundreds who had gathered screamed "Not my president".
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In Chicago, roughly 1000 people attempted to gather outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower downtown while chanting phrases like "No Trump. No KKK. No racist USA.." Chicago police closed roads in the area, blocking the demonstrators' path.
#NotMyPresident march moves from the sidewalks into the streets as thousands chant and march from Union Square up to Trump Tower in NYC pic.twitter.com/KfDTrbvE6K
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"I'm just really terrified about what is happening in this country," said 22-year-old Adriana Rizzo, who was holding a sign that read: "Enjoy your rights while you can".
Protesters railed against Trump's marquee campaign pledge to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep out undocumented immigrants and other policies perceived as affecting people of color.
"I'm particularly concerned about the rise of white nationalism and this is to show my support against that type of thing," Rizzo said.
A Facebook page for the protest in New York, and for another in Columbus Circle, showed more than 10,000 people planned to attend.
In New York there were scattered chants of "Not my president" to "Black lives matter" and "Bernie!", according to NBC New York.
People at the Union Square protest, hosted by Socialist Alternative, planned to march more than 40 blocks uptown to picket outside Trump Tower, according to organisers.
Wow! #NotMyPresident protest in NYC right now. pic.twitter.com/RY7ALHQFih
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People are gathering in Union Square NYC now for an anti-Trump protest & people sound pissed. #AntiFa pic.twitter.com/nnRK3hqaec
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Hundreds also gathered in Philadelphia and Boston on Wednesday evening, and organisers planned rallies in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland, California. In Austin, the Texas capital, about 400 people marched through the streets, police said.
Demonstrators angry about the election result have smashed windows and set garbage bins on fire in downtown Oakland, California, joining protesters elsewhere in the country who swarmed streets in response to the election.
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 Pennsylvania, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh students marched through the streets, with some in the crowd calling for unity. The student-run campus newspaper, the Pitt News, tweeted about an event titled "Emergency Meeting: Let's Unite to Stop President Trump."
In Seattle, about 100 protesters gathered in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood, blocked roads and set a trash bin on fire.
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 vandalised the driver's SUV before officers intervened. The highway was closed for about 20 minutes.
In one of the largest demonstrations, some 1500 students and teachers rallied in the courtyard of Berkeley High School in California, and then marched toward the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, a city known for its progressive politics.
"We're sitting here, setting our clocks back to 1950 electing this fool. You know? Trump honestly just makes us realise how much hate and ignorance is left," a female student told the rally, monitored via the social media app Periscope.
In downtown Los Angeles, a mostly Latino group of about 300 high school students, mostly from the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, walked out of classes and marched to the steps of City Hall, where they held a brief but boisterous rally. Several school officials accompanied the youths as chaperones.
Chanting in Spanish, "The people united will never be defeated," the group held signs with slogans such as "Not Supporting Racism, Not My President," and "Immigrants Make America Great."
A few hundred students also walked out of classes in Seattle, Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area cities of Oakland, El Cerrito and Richmond. Several hundred more pupils at the University of Texas protested on campus as well, according to local reports and footage on social media.
Anti-Trump rallies were planned later Wednesday in New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities as well, according to social media postings. A Facebook page for a protest scheduled for Manhattan's Union Square Park showed more than 8000 people planned to attend.
In Austin, Texas, about 400 people staged a peaceful protest march through the streets of the Texas capital, police said.
The demonstrations followed a night of protests around the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the country in response to Trump's political upset.
Police said at least 500 people swarmed streets in and around the UCLA campus, some shouting anti-Trump expletives and others chanting "not my president".
Smaller demonstrators were held at other University of California campuses and neighbourhoods in Irvine and Davis, and at California State University, San Jose.
AP, Reuters, Fairfax Media
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