Donald Trump News: Candidate Meets Protests In New York
Progressive groups had marched through the streets in New York and protested outside his Manhattan skyscrapers for four hours on Sunday in an apparent public bid to halt Donald Trump's recent strings of success in the Republican caucuses and primaries.
Organized by Cosmopolitan Antifascists, the demonstration has been strongly supported by immigrants' right groups as well as a huge pool of activists coming from various advocacy-based movements.
"We're here because Donald Trump is the antithesis of what America stands for," a protester from Westchester said as quoted by CBS News.
Another demonstrator from the Queens borough, Emily Kho, said New York simply won't allow manipulative fear-mongering by Trump given its rich ethno-cultural diversity.
"We need more compassion and love in order to unify people instead of fear, and that's what his campaign is all about," remarked Kho as quoted by Newsweek.
A 52-year-old Bronx middle school teacher Maribeth Whitehouse mentioned that her presence in the rally enables her to teach her students about the value of getting involved in socio-civic engagements.
"I'm a model for these kids of what good citizens do - and this is what good citizens do," said Ms. Whitehouse as reported by PBS.
Meanwhile, similar protests have been organized elsewhere such as the one in Phoenix, Arizona where a group of protesters occupied the other half of a major highway leading to Trump's pre-caucus rally thereby clogging the traffic that stretched in for a while.
A little over a week ago, Trump was forced to cancel his political rally in Chicago after violent altercations erupted between Republican front-runner Trump's supporters and protesters. He earlier accused supporters of Congress' Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders for covertly enticing people to sneak protesters into the crowd.
In a statement, Trump blames protesters for the disruption calling them as 'professional agitators'.
"I think it's very unfair that these, really, in many cases professional, in many cases sick, protesters can put cars in a road blocking thousands of great Americans from coming to a speech, and nobody says anything about that," remarked Trump as stated in New York Times report.
