Third Day of Anti-Trump Riots: ‘Die Whites Die’

Protests have sprung up across the United States in the days following Donald Trump’s election. Most protestors claim to be against Trump’s “racism,” but that isn’t stopping them from using racist tactics, themselves. Dozens of protestors gathered a New Orleans’s Lee Circle the day after the election, and they immediately began vandalizing the area.

Protesters seated on the monument steps held signs with messages like “I will not be silent,” “LGBTQ Lives Matter,” “Black Lives Matter,” “Dismantle systemic racism,” “Love Trumps Hate,” and “Stand Together Against Hate.”

Protesters chanted “Not my president!” and “(expletive) Donald Trump!”

Shortly after 6 p.m., the crowd began to march down St. Charles Avenue toward Canal Street.

As much of the crowd poured onto St. Charles Avenue, a smaller group burned an effigy of Trump on the steps of the monument.

The march moved down St. Charles Avenue to Canal Street and then continued into the French Quarter on Royal Street, according to protesters. The crowd then moved through the Quarter, marching through Jackson Square and a portion of Bourbon Street before hitting Frenchmen Street. The crowd ultimately marched back to Lee Circle.

Protesters said other people joined the march along the way.

Along the route of the march, several prominent downtown buildings, mostly businesses, were sprayed with anti-Trump graffiti along with symbols associated with anarchism.

Among the graffiti was the phrase “die whites die,” seen in the picture below.

Writing “die whites die” at a rally formed to combat Trump-fueled “racism”? How ironic.

(CNN)Thousands protesting Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election took to the streets for a third night of demonstrations and vigils in several US cities.

An anti-Trump rally in Portland, Oregon, revved up as protesters confronted police Thursday night. What started out as a peaceful march, with more than 4,000 people, quickly turned violent.

Over the course of the evening, “anarchists” in the crowd threw objects at officers, vandalized local businesses and damaged cars, Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson said.

Protesters marched through Portland’s streets Thursday night.

Police publicly declared a “riot” due to “extensive criminal and dangerous behavior” and called the protest “unlawful,” according to posts on the department’s Twitter page.

The crowd was dispersed using “less lethal munitions” and at least 26 protesters were arrested, police said.

 

Protests and marches continued in other US cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Dallas and Oakland, California.

Sources: NOLA, CNN