California protest of Trump gets rowdy
Hundreds of unruly demonstrators break through barricades and throw eggs at police Friday outside a hotel in Northern California where presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed the state’s Republican convention.
BURLINGAME, Calif. — Hundreds of rowdy protesters broke through barricades and threw eggs at police Friday outside a hotel where Donald Trump addressed the state’s Republican convention.
Several Trump supporters said they were roughed up, but no serious injuries were reported.
The protest just outside San Francisco occurred a day after anti-Trump protesters took to the streets in Southern California, blocking traffic and damaging five police cars in Costa Mesa following a speech by the leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Demonstrators at both locations waved Mexican flags, an action meant to counter Trump’s hard stance on immigration and disparaging remarks about Mexico.
Because of the protest, Trump was rerouted to a back entrance. In a surreal scene, news helicop- ters showed the billionaire businessman and his security detail walking between concrete freeway barriers before hopping down onto a grass verge and walking across a service road.
“That was not the easiest entrance I ever made,” Trump quipped when he started speaking to the convention delegates. “It felt like I was crossing the border.”
Outside, crowds of antiTrump demonstrators broke through steel barricades and pelted riot police with eggs.Burlingame is right outside San Francisco, a liberal bastion that became the focal point of the immigration debate last year when an immigrant in the country illegally, and who had been deported multiple times, shot and killed a woman walking with her father.
Trump often has highlighted the San Francisco killing while touting his plan to build a wall along the entire Mexican border.
California’s primary is June 7.