Demonstrations bubbled up again Thursday night in several cities including Columbus, where a march occurred down High Street on the border of Ohio State University; in Grand Rapids, Mich.; at Michigan State University in East Lansing; in Milwaukee, Wis.; and at Wayne State University in Detroit to name some of the locations.
CBSLA.com reported that Thursday afternoon, anti-Trump protesters blocked lanes of the westbound 10 Freeway in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. The LAPD said it has adopted a “zero tolerance” policy for protesters blocking freeways. Mayor Eric Garcetti said he supports peaceful demonstrations, but admonished protesters to stay off freeways.
Thursday evening in Columbus, hundreds took to the sidewalks outside the Statehouse. Speakers addressed crowds and crowds engaged in chanting.
Austin Kocher, an event organizer and geography grad student at Ohio State University, told the Columbus Dispatch, “this will give people the chance to vent.”
The Associated Press is reporting that demonstrators took to the streets in San Francisco and gathered in a New York City park while Trump supporters took to social media and denounced demonstrators as hypocrites or worse for not accepting defeat in a democratic process.
According to Thinkprogress.org, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who Politico reports is among those being floated to become Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, tweeted that the protests “must be quelled” because “there is no legitimate reason to protest the will of the people.”