Donald Trump Slams California Protesters As "Thugs And Criminals"

By R. Siva Kumar - 01 May '16 07:26AM
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On Friday, the Burlingame streets erupted when Trump addressed California's GOP convention. There were protestors who shut down the streets and overlapped into the grounds near the Hyatt Regency hotel.

Most of the demonstration was thought to be peaceful, but many of the protestors resorted to flag-burning and egg-throwing.

"No hate in our state," they chanted, even as a few of them filed in with Mexican flags to protest against Trump's anti-immigrant policies.

The Burlingame police report that there were five arrests and one of them had a non-serious injury.

Many of the protestors tried to block Trump's entrance. When he arrived with his Secret Service entourage, he hopped over a fence so that he could come into the event space.

He cited the incident at the Republican convention, joking that he knew what it felt like to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

"We went under a fence and through a fence," Trump said Friday. "And oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border, actually."

The protest was the second huge demonstration against Trump. On Thursday night, he addressed 18,000 supporters near the Orange County Fairgrounds. Although there were loud cries against him and two patrol cars were damaged, nobody reported any major problems.

The Costa Mesa police arrested demonstrators but released 17 people on charges of failing to disperse.

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