Hundreds of Students March Against Trump in Downtown San Diego

SAN DIEGO -- Hundreds of students at two San Diego high schools and a community college walked out of classes today and marched through the urban center of the city in protest of Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States.

The noisy rallies began in the late morning outside Lincoln High School and San Diego High, as well as San Diego City College.

The demonstrators blocked sections of Imperial Avenue, Park Boulevard, C Street, Broadway, Front Street and other roads and they paraded through town,displaying signs, waving flags and joining together in chants -- including "the people united -- we'll never be divided'' -- to decry Trump's perceived hostility toward minorities and lack of qualifications to serve as president.

The protest was largely peaceful, though at least one person was taken into custody, police said, for punching an officer.

Much of the throng wound up gathering for an hour or so in the area of Horton Plaza and nearby Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building before doubling back and heading east to the Park Boulevard grounds of the college, where the demonstration continued into the mid-afternoon.

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