After Trump win, protesters move through downtown Oakland
on November 9, 2016
Late Tuesday night, as president-elect Donald Trump was giving his victory speech, a group of protesters moved through downtown Oakland demonstrating against the results of the election.
Shouting “Fuck Trump!” and “Fuck the KKK,” they marched down Broadway. By midnight, the group had about 70 people; the Oakland Police Department (OPD) reported that the group ultimately grew to 250 people before breaking up in the early morning hours.
Some members of the group, wearing black bandanas across their faces, smashed the windows of downtown businesses, set small trashcan fires, and wrote graffiti on walls. Others, trailing the group, tried to clean up after them.
According to an OPD statement released at about 4:30 am Wednesday morning, there were no injuries and no arrests had been made, although police issued one citation to a protester.
Oakland North will continue to update this story.
Photos by Mary Newman and Yesica Prado. Photo slideshow compiled by Khaled Sayed.
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- Protesters vandalize the streets of Oakland to protest Donald Trump winning the election. The crowd began at City Hall with a small group of 15 people and grew to close to 70 people by 1 am. photo by Mary Newman
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- Once the protestors turned onto Telegraph Avenue, things escalated and they began grabbing anything they could to smash store windows. Photo by Mary Newman
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- At the intersection of Broadway and 12th Street, one protester lit her cigarette from a trash fire started by protesters wearing all black with bandanas covering their faces. Photo by Mary Newman.
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- Oakland Police rushed protesters on Telegraph Avenue at around 12:30 AM. Photo by Mary Newman
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- Oakland Police officers tried to calm the crowd but were met with increased resistance. One female protester began yelling “We don’t want a country like this, we don’t want you to be the enemy!” Photo by Mary Newman
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- A protester holds a handmade sign. Photo by Mary Newman
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- A couple embraces as they watch the results of the elections on CNN at the Kingfish bar in Oakland. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Oakland Police Department officers gather on Broadway and 12th Street after the protestors have passed through downtown Oakland. OPD was on stand by blocking the streeets to ensure no more violence broke from protestors. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Scenes of Oakland at night after the protestors have passed through Broadway in downtown Oakland. Protestors began by marching peacefully after the presidential results announced Donald J. Trump as new president of the U.S. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- A garbage can is lit on fire after protestors marched down Broadway. Protestors began lighting up fires with nearby garbage cans, expressing their anger at the presidential election results. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Oakland firefighters put out the garbage can fires left in the middle of the street on Broadway. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Oakland firefighters are covered in smoke after putting out a fire in a metal dumpster left in the middle of the street on Broadway in Oakland. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- After the first wave of protestors on Broadway scattered, another wave of protestors came back to downtown Oakland around 1:30 a.m. peacefully marching against the results of the presidential election. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Protestors march down 14th Street and Broadway, yelling “Not my president!” and “Fuck Donald Trump!” in reaction to the election results. Police met protestors at this intersection to stop them until they received orders to step aside. Around 1:36 a.m. police stepped aside from the intersection and protestors continued to march, expressing their angry feelings. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Protestors march down 14th Street and Broadway, yelling “Not my president!” and “Fuck Donald Trump!” to Oakland Police Department officers as they lined up to block the intersection of 14th Street and Broadway on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Protestors throw up their peace signs, yelling “This is a peaceful protest!” to the Oakland police officers stopping them from continuing their march on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- Oakland Police Department officers meet protestors marching down 14th Street and Broadway at 1:40 a.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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- An Oakland police officer walks past a vandalized window that states “Fuck DAPL,” on Wednesday, Novemeber 9, 2016. (Yesica Prado/Oakland North)
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