Fight Breaks Out After Milwaukee Donald Trump Protest March; Thousands Rally

MILWAUKEE -- Temperatures escalated Thursday night in Downtown Milwaukee, and it wasn't simply because of the weather.

A group of demonstrators totaling more than one thousand gathered in Red Arrow Park on Thursday night in protest of President-Elect Donald Trump.

According to a WISN report, with signs and chants, many unfit for print or broadcast, demonstrators made a giant loop through downtown -- west on West Wisconsin Avenue before turning north on North 6th Street and then east on West McKinley Avenue -- prompting some businesses to lock their doors on the unusually warm November night.

The Journal Sentinel is reporting that a loosely organized crowd of several hundred that had gathered at Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee swelled to nearly 2,000 as the mostly young, racially diverse demonstrators marched along Wisconsin Ave. screaming obscenity-laced chants against the background of makeshift drum beats.

A fight was quickly broken up by authorities following the demonstrators' march when Trump supporters greeted the marchers back at Red Arrow Park.

WISN 12 has learned that harsh words were exchanged and some punches were thrown before authorities quelled the situation.

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