The protest chaos that engulfed the outside of a Donald Trump event in Southern California on Thursday followed the Republican presidential front-runner to the Bay area on Friday, as hundreds gathered outside the hotel where he was scheduled to address state Republicans.
Trump’s speech was delayed by the demonstrations.
Protesters could be seen breaking through barricades, as well as picking them up and tossing them aside, as they moved toward the front of the hotel hosting the event in Burlingame, Calif.
One Trump supporter told Fox News he was confronted by the protesters. “I got punched, beat up, eggs thrown [at] me. … I got spit on,” he said.
A dozen protesters also linked arms to block the road in front of the hotel near San Francisco International Airport, but no one was using the street because police had already closed it to traffic. Protesters also draped a large “Stop Hate” banner outside the hotel. At least one could be seen waving the Mexican flag.
In Southern California the night before, violent demonstrations led to 17 arrests as the Republican presidential contender brought his campaign to conservative Orange County on Thursday.
While Trump held a rally at a fairgrounds amphitheater, dozens waved anti-Trump signs outside in what were initially mostly peaceful protests and traded insults with masses of the candidate’s supporters who had lined up to see him. Later in the evening, however, the protests swelled and grew rowdy and spilled into the streets.
One Trump supporter had his face bloodied in a scuffle as he tried to drive out of the arena. One man jumped on a police car, leaving its front and rear windows smashed and the top dented and other protesters sprayed graffiti on a police car and the Pacific Amphitheatre’s marquee.
Dozens of cars — including those of Trump supporters trying to leave — were stuck in the street as several hundred demonstrators blocked the road, waved Mexican flags and posed for selfies. Some protesters badgered Trump’s fans as they walked to their cars in the parking lot.
Police in riot gear and on horseback pushed the crowd back and away from the venue. There were no major injuries and police did not use any force. The crowd began dispersing about three hours after the speech ended.
Seventeen people were arrested, Costa Mesa police Sgt. Mike Manson said.
Trump has drawn large crowds across the country, with some of his events marred by protests and scuffles. The Pacific Amphitheatre was filled to its capacity of about 8,000 and a couple thousand more were turned away, Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Stichter said.
Earlier this week, a Trump rally in nearby Anaheim turned contentious when his supporters and protesters clashed, and several people were hit by pepper spray. Trump was not present.
Ly Kou, 47, of Ontario, said she likes Trump because he has vowed to put the country first.
“It’s obvious that America loves Trump,” said Kou, who is from Laos, as she pointed at the waiting throng. “This thing about him being racist? Look around the crowd.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/29/protest-chaos-follows-trump-to-calif-gop-convention.html
“One Trump supporter told Fox News he was confronted by the protesters. “I got punched, beat up, eggs thrown [at] me. … I got spit on,” he said.”
Poor thing.
That’s NOTHING compared to what the so-called ‘government’ has planned for your stupid, votin’ @ss!
“It’s obvious that America loves Trump,” said Kou…”
The only thing that’s obvious is that there are a whole lot of really stupid people in this country.
Soon-to-be-DEAD stupid people.
Nice to know all the answers and have no solutions isn’t it? Armchair cowboy I suppose.
It’s nice to have new commenters on the site, but if you’re going to come here and ridicule someone that has been here since its inception is just wrong. Have some respect.
Hehehe!
Get some deb!
SS,
Chill dude. It will be OK. I know why you like the idea of a trump presidency. THEY will never allow it to come to reality it’s the same as when the real Paul was running. The PTB have a plan and Trump or Paul or you or me are not Allowed to have any input! Get some ammo and be ready for the chaos that is gonna come. Especially if Trump gets the nom. The Soros funded freaks will riot until November!
Hang on folks! The shit is getting deep this year with this election!
NWO, that is not an endorcment of trump. Just my opinion of what this all means. People are getting ripe for picking Trump may be the flame that starts the fire. This thing could actually be a good thing for America. Bonfires need a spark to get going into a blaze that burns it down! 😉
Hey Bulldog! 🙂
You said it. As you and your good wife say: “get ready, it’s coming”!
Yes ma’am. I really think the crap is gonna get real this year.
Finally!
Get more TP and bullets while we can! 😉
You know Missy has the TP! 🙂
Relax ss…
Hatr has punched me in the nuts b4.
But to be able to forgive and move on takes wisdom and that only comes with age and being punched in the nuts all your life.
He’s in a dark place just trying to survive.
Just like the rest of us.
If you don’t believe me then go outside and turn off the power to your abode.
Then you might get just a taste of what he’s going through.
No harm…no foul here.
🙂
You’re a good man flee!
I’m trying to post I’ve seen fire And I’ve seen rain here but I’m on a tablet and too freaking old to know how. If anyone can accommodate that it would fit and is always a good tune!
I’ll try for ya Bulldog, but I’m on a tablet too. It’ll most likely only post the link. My daughter ran off with my laptop. Where’s Angel when ya need her? Haha!
I can copy the link but can’t paste it. Where is a nerd when you need one?!?! Lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOIo4lEpsPY
Thats always good one. No matter how dark. We always pull through.
Always!
🙂
SS, I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I do know that voting won’t fix this country. The American system has failed. The corruption has gotten too deep.
Trump has said some things I agree with, but just because he’s said them doesn’t mean he believes them. He may be fooling a lot of people with the right-wing equivalent of Obama’s “hope and change.”
And then there are the dealbreakers. Trump showed his opinion of the Bill of Rights when he condemned Ed Snowden’s heroic actions. Trump has a history of supporting assault weapons bans. He gleefully supports torture. He sucks up to Israel like the others. Maybe he’s not entirely sincere in these positions, but I’m not willing to take that chance.
All that being said, I’m glad Trump is running. Perhaps unwittingly, he’s revealing to the masses some important truths, such as the rigging of US elections by the political establishment. He’s demonstrating the control of the mainstream media by that establishment. He’s upsetting the neocons greatly with his “isolationist” talk. Perhaps most important, his candidacy has the potential to cause widespread social unrest, which just might be the catalyst this country needs before positive changes can occur (like the secession of one or more states).
SS,
How can you believe a word out of that Con Artist’s mouth? Do a little research of his past and business dealings…
If you think he is the answer Miss USA/Miss Universe, You’re Fired! Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
OMG!!! Angel-NYC, you have no idea how close I came to submitting this song last night so I just about “$hit a brick” when I saw you had posted it! “You have entered the Twilight Zone”! We were riding the same mental wave last night.
😆 😉 😀
wow… seriously?
There’s only ONE f%&king answer, and ONE f%&king solution. Do you REALLY need it spelled out for you?
GUNS. KILL ALL THE ZIONISTS/COMMUNISTS.
get it?
Thanks for the affirmation, guys/gals. 🙂
At least YOU all know the score.
No answer, SS???
Hardly surprising.
Guess he realized he stepped through the wrong door. Haha!
There’s ONLY one solution, Deb, and if he/(she?) hasn’t figured out what that is yet, he/? needs to get his/? head out of the idiot box and wise up quick.
Almost sounded as if he/? was defending the stupid people. Anyone who knows me knows I have a VERY low tolerance for stupidity.
And I won’t apologize for it, either.
On the brighter side, sunny & hot all day, and not a SINGLE CHEMTRAIL!!! 🙂
I sure hope Trump goes to SFO.
Then we can see the LGBT rainbow flag go up the pole in defiance.
Then they can throw used syringes and used aids infected condoms at him.
Welcome to the freak show people.
Just another diversion divide and conquer strategy to keep you entertained in the circus act.
Bulldog (and Deb):
You’re awesome Angel! Did you hear me calling you? LOL
LOL 😉 😀
For Bulldog : Fire and Rain lyrics by James Taylor
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song,
I just can’t remember who to send it to.
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought that I’d see you again.
Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus, You’ve got to help me make a stand.
You’ve just got to see me through another day.
My body’s aching and my time is at hand and I won’t make it any other way.
Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought that I’d see you again.
Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around.
Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come.
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
but I always thought that I’d see you baby, one more time again, now.
Thought I’d see you one more time again.
There’s just a few things coming my way this time around, now.
Thought I’d see you, thought I’d see you, fire and rain, now.
Read more at http://www.lyrics.com/fire-and-rain-lyrics-james-taylor.html#YPqSIqjBxfFEMhiA.99
I get that no matter what shit is thrown at ya, you will come out the other side!
We had a saying in the Army, you can’t smoke a rock!
Hang on people.
We’re getting close to the top of the roller coaster.
Remember like Bill Hicks said.
“Its just a ride”.
So hang on…!!!!
🙂
Got my laptop back. I can’t get this song out of my head ever since I sent Missy that video earlier. LOL
Thanks Cookie Monster!
YEAH, Deb! You got it back! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Those are two of my favorite songs, too.
I posted both of them in our Concert For Diggerdan. I revisit that post often (when I’m thinking of Dan and just to listen to the assortment of tunes posted by other Trenchers). Unfortunately, some of the songs are no longer available (I’m guessing due to copyright). 🙁 😥 However, those two songs are still there. 🙂
I love the oldies Angel, I could listen to them all night long. Actually, I have many times and have woken in the morning with my headphones strangling me! Haha!
I miss Digger being here, we’re almost up to an anniversary of his life. I can’t believe it’s been nearly 2 years. We have to put together another concert to honor him. This time I will have my laptop on hand. 🙂
I’ve gotta catch some z’s… See ya over the weekend!
<3
Sweet Dreams. Don’t strangle yourself with those headphones. LOL
<3
Not the best video choice, but here’s another song that won’t get out of my head. I’m leaving the headphones on the nightstand tonight. haha!
Night!
Deb, have you heard the original?
~ SOMEDAY SOON ~ written by Ian Tyson.
” ‘In his teens Ian Tyson decided upon a career as a rodeo rider. Recovering from a fall in the mid 1950s he started learning guitar. Ian started playing clubs and coffeehouses in Toronto and by 1959 he was performing music as a full-time occupation. Sylvia, still in her teens started frequenting the folk clubs of Toronto. By 1959, they started performing together.’ But it was Judy Collins that popularized Tyson`s song.”
Wow Angel, I didn’t realize “someday soon” went that far back! Thanks for that video! And all these years I thought Judy Collins was the originator. Mind blown!
🙂
This is no different than the half-naked Mexican running up the exit ramp on the I-35 in Austin, TX with his face painted and waving a giant sized Mexican flag and screaming and praising Mexico and no one did a thing.
“One man jumped on a police car, leaving its front and rear windows smashed and the top dented and other protesters sprayed graffiti on a police car and the Pacific Amphitheatre’s marquee.”
And if an American National did this, there would be MRAPs, the entire police force on their ass, be deemed an extremist, domestic terrorist and tased and beaten to death, but NOOOO not for illegals.
Hang ’em all!!! 😡
I know we got off subject last night.
Yeah NC, you’re so right if it were one of us that did that, we’d be tased or dead. I can’t believe the level of violence that they are getting away with! Its intentional. Period. Soros and tptb want riots, they want conflict between us and them. We know their plan. Hey, cancel the elections so ohblahblah can get his third term and be the overlord dictator. I see nothing short of desperation. Their plan was suppose to be complete by 2000. Oops. What to do….
This is theater.
The crowd size is actually very small.
First videos came from ‘jew’ owned alex jones.
Most all first images/videos are close-ups never revealing the crowd’s true size. This is psychological as most wont look past the talmudvision anyway.
Are those americans, or border-jumpers that got paid by soros like the imported moldavans during the ukraine maiden?
Where’s noodleman to hand out burritos?
Watch out for the mossad rooftop shooters at the next event….
-flek
For all, James Taylor Fire And Rain lyrics http://lyricsmusic.name/james-taylor-lyrics/sweet-baby-james/fire-and-rain.html
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song,
I just can’t remember who to send it to.
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought that I’d see you again.
Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus, You’ve got to help me make a stand.
You’ve just got to see me through another day.
My body’s aching and my time is at hand and I won’t make it any other way.
Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought that I’d see you again.
Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around.
Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come.
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
but I always thought that I’d see you baby, one more time again, now.
Thought I’d see you one more time again.
There’s just a few things coming my way this time around, now.
Thought I’d see you, thought I’d see you, fire and rain, now.