Protesters Clash at Trump San Diego Rally

Local Editor

Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters remained in downtown San Diego after his Friday campaign rally, with police reporting clashes between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators.

At least 18 people received medical attention and at least two were arrested during Friday clashes between demonstrators in San Diego, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The newspaper said that Trump left the area at about 04:30 pm local time [23:30 GMT] on Friday, but hundreds of his opponents remained in downtown San Diego, continuing protesting after his speech, despite police orders to leave.

The skirmishes flared as the convention canter emptied following Trump's rally, and supporters and opponents met in the streets, jeering and heckling each other
Dozens of police officers in riot gear had been deployed to separate them.

Some protesters scaled a wall of the center to throw water bottles at police.

After ordering the crowds to disperse, police then moved them away from the city's Gaslamp Quarter.

San Diego's population is about one-third Latino and hundreds of thousands of people cross the border with Mexico legally each day.

One San Diego protester, Martha McPhail, told the local City News Service: "I am opposed to the hateful, bigoted, racist language of Donald Trump and his arrogance and intolerance."

On Friday, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic rival of the presumptive Republican nominee, told a San Jose crowd that the United States has a duty to other nations that look to America as a beacon of strength and stability, to defeat Trump.

Source: News Agencies, edited by website team