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Over 1,000 Protesters Disrupt Trump's San Diego Rally

  • Protesters yell as police officers form a skirmish line outside a rally for Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Fresno, California, U.S. May 27, 2016.

    Protesters yell as police officers form a skirmish line outside a rally for Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Fresno, California, U.S. May 27, 2016. | Photo: Reuters

Published 28 May 2016
Opinion

The protesters were waving Mexican and U.S. flags as they denounced the candidate’s stances on immigration while police cracked down on the demonstrations.

Waving U.S. and Mexican flags, more than 1,000 people turned out for anti-Donald Trump protests in San Diego where the presumptive Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in the U.S.-Mexico border city which sees nearly 300,000 people crossing legally between the two countries.

San Diego is considered a binational city by many who live and work on opposite sides of the border, and about a third of the city's population is Latino.

During Trump's speech on Friday, some protesters outside the convention center scaled a barrier and lobbed water bottles at police. One man was pulled off the wall and arrested as others were surrounded by fellow protesters and backed away from the confrontation.

Police in riot gear declared the gathering an unlawful assembly and ordered the crowd to disperse, herding the crowd out of the city's hotel and restaurant-filled Gaslamp Quarter.

"Fantastic job on handling the thugs who tried to disrupt our very peaceful and well attended rally," Trump tweeted to police afterwards.

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