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Demonstrators storm California GOP convention to protest Trump
CNN ^ | Apr 29, 2016 | Tom LoBianco, Jeremy Diamond and Ashley Killough,

Posted on 04/29/2016 2:26:19 PM PDT by Innovative

Burlingame, California (CNN) — Hundreds of demonstrators descended on the California Republican Convention Friday to protest Donald Trump ahead of his speech there.

Protesters -- some of whom wore bandanas over their faces and carried Mexican flags -- blocked off the road in front of the Hyatt Regency here, forcing the GOP front-runner's motorcade to pull over along a concrete median outside the hotel's back entrance. Trump and his entourage got out and walked into the building.

At one point, about two dozen protesters tried to rush barriers near the hotel. Police officers then rushed to the building's doors, successfully blocking the protesters from getting in.

Several physical altercations, including shoving, could be seen between protesters and police officers, who were using batons to push them back.

After Trump arrived, protesters took down a barrier and flooded the entrance outside the hotel, where police again blocked them from entering. They chanted, "Get him out."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; burlingame; california; election2016; elections; mexico; newyork; tedblamesdonald; trump
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To: corlorde
This tells me Trump is the right person. One could base their vote on how mad the left is...like a scale. The madder they are, the more one could infer the better the candidate is for the country.

Meanwhile, how many protests/riots by Leftists against any other Republican candidates have you heard of?

21 posted on 04/29/2016 2:39:34 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Innovative
I wondered where some of our FR Cruzers were today. Then I saw them on TV with their comrades.
22 posted on 04/29/2016 2:40:27 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: bigbob

schlonged?


23 posted on 04/29/2016 2:40:43 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: DAC21

Typical Puto reconquistas. Sedition to the core. That man has every right to speak and his followers every right to hear him.


24 posted on 04/29/2016 2:41:27 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (After 17 years & nearly 12,000 FR posts later, AiT here with FRontline Freeping & news from Asia)
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To: pocat
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25 posted on 04/29/2016 2:41:47 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Aliska

What does the code pink flag or banner look like? I saw a guy with a big pink flag I think it had FSL on in in white.


26 posted on 04/29/2016 2:42:14 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: gg188

Got hyperbole much?


27 posted on 04/29/2016 2:42:23 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (After 17 years & nearly 12,000 FR posts later, AiT here with FRontline Freeping & news from Asia)
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To: Innovative

They are NOT demonstrators! When these domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, and traitors resort to violence, the police need to resort to full auto.


28 posted on 04/29/2016 2:42:26 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: PapaBear3625

If trump was gone they would be there for his successor


29 posted on 04/29/2016 2:43:03 PM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: Innovative

What a bunch of crap. CNN is trying to make this sound like some huge demonstration. A couple hundred protesters in the Bay Area? Nothing. They keep showing close ups of demonstrators, but when they back the camera up it’s a tiny amount. The cops easily outnumber the protesters. Wolf Blitzer it breathlessly talking about “growing protests”. Meh. They certainly didn’t “storm” the convention. They did assault some Trump supporters on the way in, and vandalize a cop car, that’s about it.


30 posted on 04/29/2016 2:44:07 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Innovative

NO NEED TO GO TO CNN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z02EZ6nY4DA

This is a 2 min clip from CNN, without all that stupid extra crap.

Do NOT give CNN hits...


31 posted on 04/29/2016 2:44:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Innovative

Did Ted Cruz crawl out of his hole to denounce Trump for this yet?


32 posted on 04/29/2016 2:45:34 PM PDT by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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To: Innovative

...Earlier Friday, bare-breasted protesters, men and women, some of whom were associated with the progressive group Code Pink, chanted “stop hate” as they marched...

And they quickly left when the found the crowd was too cheap to put any cash in their g strings after they pole danced


33 posted on 04/29/2016 2:46:37 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Innovative

So now that California law enforcement has seen that this going to be the standard MO of the reactionary crowds of rioters and illegal aliens, I wonder if they’ll anticipate this behavior and take proactive measures, or will they (deliberately) allow these riots to take place and then step in with only a minimal force after the fact?


34 posted on 04/29/2016 2:48:06 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

The taxpayers have furnished a nearly free ride for decades. They ain’t letting it get away without a fight. We’re lucky we have someone with the stones necessary to duke it out.


35 posted on 04/29/2016 2:48:22 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: ColdOne
It varies. One looks like a long shawl with fringe, and the other is long and wide, affixed to a table. There are all kinds of variations. I didn't want to embed a getty image which most are. Just go to google images and put in code pink banner.

I couldn't find where they have a flag, surely they have something like that, too.

The Code Pink lady registered at the Hyatt last night, spent the night in a room. When she went down to the rally and started protesting, security escorted her out. She said "very gently". Wonder why that was? That Michelle Field or whoever made such a crapfest?

36 posted on 04/29/2016 2:49:20 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: Innovative

Keep the protest going cockroaches.....America needs to remember why we need to close the border and kick these useless POS’s out!!!!! Little do these stupid protesters realize they’re useful idiots who are helping to solidify America’s resolve to vote for Trump in November...... All that free coverage to remind people exactly why we want Trump.....and they have to GTF out of this country!!!!!!!!


37 posted on 04/29/2016 2:49:50 PM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: connyankee
A few are noticing they aren't protesting the other candidate. I don't see much in protests on the left with Hillary and Bernie, just a couple incidents.

The LA Times made it to be about Trump causing them. He dares to speak the truth, and they can't handle that.

38 posted on 04/29/2016 2:52:12 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: Innovative

I should have thrown in Commies for good measure as a lot of the protestors are young anti-capitalists, Occupy-type people.


39 posted on 04/29/2016 2:53:58 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: Innovative

Hundreds...............who refuse to work and want a hand out


40 posted on 04/29/2016 2:54:04 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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