Immigrants demonstrate against Trump as protests continue

But as activists look to the next four years with Trump in the White House while his party controls both houses of Congress, some are preparing for what they hope will be the nation’s most enduring demonstrations since the Occupy Wall Street movement. “They’re here to stay and we stand in solidarity with them”. “It’s not that we’re sore losers”, she said. “People don’t know what will happen and they’re very scared”.

Anti-Trump protests erupted following Tuesday’s presidential elections which saw the Republican candidate surprise pollsters and get voted into office.

The protesters, a lot of them young people, gathered at Union Square in force and soon marched towards the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, residence and campaign headquarters of the real estate mogul and reality show star turned politician.

Shawn Smith, 41, of Los Angeles, wore an American flag vest and held a glittery sign that said “Love Trumps Hate”.

Other protests are expected Sunday in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver and other cities.

Sonja Spray, 29, who heard about the protest on Facebook, said she has signed an online petition urging the electoral college to honor the popular vote and elect Hillary Clinton. “I felt like we didn’t do what we should have done to protect them”. The largely peaceful demonstrations were overshadowed by sporadic episodes of vandalism, violence and street-blocking.

A protester was shot at an anti-Trump rally in Portland as demonstrations that have raged across the U.S. since Wednesday turned violent.

The suspect was believed to be in a vehicle on the bridge when a confrontation unfolded with a member of the crowd, Portland police said in a statement.

Though the demonstrations remained relatively peaceful elsewhere, local police reported that arrests were made at multiple protests: 180 in Los Angeles, three in Indianapolis and two in New York City. The protests, now in their third night, again turned violent with protesters throwing projectiles at officers and police deploying tear gas.

“Officers near the scene arrived quickly and provided medical aid until an ambulance arrived to transport the victim to a Portland hospital for treatment to non-life-threatening injuries”, the Portland Police Bureau says.

The group then got back in the auto and after a short while, the man with the gun came back out of the vehicle and fired “five or six” warning shots into the air.

Police advising crowd on 4th Avenue this is an unlawful assembly, if you do not disperse you are subject to arrest.

Police earlier had tweeted that protesters were headed to the bridge, which spans the Willamette River in Portland.

Dozens of protesters have been arrested and a handful of police injured during the protests in Portland and other cities.

Evening marches disrupted traffic in Miami and Atlanta.