Downtown Demonstrators Join Anti-Trump Protests Across Country: Reports

ATLANTA, GA — Protesters gathered in downtown Atlanta Wednesday night, and in other cities across the country, to demonstrate against the election of Donald Trump as president, according to media reports.

Trump, the Republican candidate and billionaire real estate mogul, stunned Democratic candidate Hillary clinton and the nation in Tuesday's voting, capturing 279 electoral votes to clinch the presidency. Clinton, however, leads in the popular vote, although all of the votes across the country have yet to be counted.

Voters in Georgia favored Trump by a close margin, according to media reports, and the state's 16 electoral votes went to the Republican.

On Wednesday night, several hundred people met at Piedmont Park and marched through downtown, shouting anti-Trump slogans, before mixing with fans leaving the Hawks basketball game at Philips Arena, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The Atlanta police dispersed the demonstrators when they reached the Fox Theatre, WSB-TV reported. A police spokesman said the protest was peaceful, but one protester was arrested.

As in Atlanta, protests flared in cities across the country Wednesday night over the presidential election, from New England to the Midwest to the West Coast, WSB-TV Channel 2 reported. The demonstrators "carried flags and anti-Trump signs, disrupting traffic and declaring that they refused to accept Trump's triumph."

In Manhattan, about 1,000 people gethered outside Trump Tower, the headquarters of Trump's campaign, and police put up barricades to keep the crowds away from the building.

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