Oakland Protests

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  'Not My President': Protests Flare Up On US Streets After Donald Trump's Victory

  Demonstrators angry about the election of Donald Trump smashed windows and set garbage bins on fire early on Wednesday in downtown Oakland, California, joining protesters elsewhere in the country who swarmed streets in response to the election. Other protests were generally peaceful.

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  Protests In California After Donald Trump Wins Election

  Protesters gathered in Oakland and sought to block freeways and create a commotion.

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  Secret Service Detain Four Protesters During Bernie Sanders' Rally

  At least four people on Monday rushed the stage as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke at a rally in Oakland, where Secret Service agents swarmed around him and detain the protesters, CNN reported.

• Barack Obama urges calm after protests over George Zimmerman's acquittal in racially-charged murder trial

  President Barack Obama appealed to Americans for restraint, after anger from civil rights activists and public protests against the acquittal of a man who gunned down an unarmed black teenager.

• After lull, Occupy protest resurfaces in Oakland

  For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland's streets for occasional weekend marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall.

• Police fire tear gas at anti-Wall Street protestors

  Police fired tear gas and sound grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland, near San Francisco, late on Tuesday night.