[ad_1]
People take part in a protest against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on March 19, 2016, in New York City. People protest against Trump’s policies which threaten the Immigration system and many of the Latino, Black, LGBT, Muslim, and other communities.
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
As was the case in Chicago last week, thousands took to the streets of Manhattan on Saturday to protest Donald Trump, and dozens more shut down a highway in Arizona at the same time.
The protests, though not officially linked, look like the new normal as groups join together against what many see as the real estate mogul’s dangerous ascent into politics.
In New York, the four-hour march began a stone’s throw away from the Republican presidential candiate’s iconic Trump International Hotel and Tower in midtown Manhattan, and Newsweek reports that the throng stopped at three of Trump’s properties, with at least two arrests.
The Manhattan march was reportedly organized by a group on Facebook called Cosmopolitan Antifascists and was joined by various immigrants’ rights groups and other activists from across the city and state.
Newsweek reports a colorful throng of people that held signs and chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Islamophobia has got to go,” “Get up, get down, immigrants built this town” and “The people united will never be defeated.”
There was a heavy New York Police Department presence along the streets of Manhattan and one man tells Newsweek that he was pepper-sprayed by a NYPD officer while he was trying to help another participant stand up from the ground.
“The protesters at this point were not being physical. It really seemed like the police were instigating,” says the man only identified as Harrison. “As we were lifting this person up, I was pepper-sprayed to my left … I wasn’t in any officer’s face. They just maced me on the side.” At least two people were arrested for disorderly conduct.
Meanwhile at about the same time in Arizona, protesters shut highways down for at least two hours on Saturday in protest of a planned Trump rally there, leaving hundreds of cars stuck on Shea Boulevard or forced drive into oncoming traffic to get around the barricade.
Protesters stood in front of the cars chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!” and several cabled themselves to their cars to keep them from being towed, but were arrested. The Arizona Trump rally went on as planned.
[ad_2]
