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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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: Innovative
Makes me glad Trump will rid us of the infestation of illegals.

These morons don't realize that their actions will gain many more Trump votes.

A few dozen ICE trucks should’ve showed up to this event.

41 posted on 04/29/2016 2:56:42 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Innovative

Any man willing to undergo this Ordeal by Fire has the stuff to make a good President.


42 posted on 04/29/2016 2:59:23 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("If you want to be able to predict the future, first you have to create it"---Lincoln)
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To: Innovative
Anyone bringing a Mexican flag to an event connected to an American election should be taken across the border. Legal, American traitor or illegal.

Let them explain their presence in Mexico to the federales.

43 posted on 04/29/2016 2:59:31 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Innovative

Ladies, start wearing hats with hat pins. They are in all the antique stores. You will figure how to protect yourself. You didn’t think hat pins were for holding hats, did you. LOL


44 posted on 04/29/2016 3:00:59 PM PDT by healy61
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To: Sicon

Better buy some stock in Pampers too.


45 posted on 04/29/2016 3:03:35 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Innovative

These people don’t seem to be worried about Cruz, I wonder why?


46 posted on 04/29/2016 3:07:00 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

“Why is the left so very violent?”

Why? Because they are leftists. That is what they do.

I don’t know why we don’t feed it right back to them...


47 posted on 04/29/2016 3:08:24 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: Innovative

Those weren’t demonstrators or protestors. They were Latino thugs... plain and simple.

I now want a 40 foot tall wall... embedded with glass throughout. Maybe a moat with alligators.


48 posted on 04/29/2016 3:10:32 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: Innovative

Demonstrators, my arse! They’re damn violent thugs, carrying Mexican flags!


49 posted on 04/29/2016 3:11:47 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: catnipman

Quote:

“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?”

Evidently it has escaped the ****-for-brains Media talking heads that by walking to and from the facility the way he did, Trump exposed himself to an assassin’s sniper fire.

The Secret Service and the local LEO’s failed miserably. Probably by design.....


50 posted on 04/29/2016 3:12:22 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Innovative

If Conservatives were doing this to Democrats there would be 24/7 saturation coverage.


51 posted on 04/29/2016 3:12:44 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: ataDude

BTW... Costa Mesa police, county sheriff and state troopers should be ashamed for letting it happen.


52 posted on 04/29/2016 3:12:47 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

You’ve evidently never dealt with true communists.


53 posted on 04/29/2016 3:12:50 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: catnipman

54 posted on 04/29/2016 3:13:06 PM PDT by 4Liberty (We can't say 'Property' with 'Rights,' but we must use 'Social' [collectivism] with "Justice.")
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To: fruser1

Surprising how a good design, once invented, never really goes out of circulation.


55 posted on 04/29/2016 3:16:57 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Innovative

demonstrators.....
no....... sorry...
RIOTERS
pd should have cracked heads
lots of mexican flags
probably lots of ILLEGAL WETBACKS ...
PICKINN LETTUCE GETS YOU WORKED UP
and schwartz money helps too


56 posted on 04/29/2016 3:17:20 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Carl Vehse

“...When these domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, and traitors resort to violence, the police need to resort to full auto....”

The police should have gone in FULL SLAP-DOWN MODE on these criminals. Premeditated domestic violence should put this kind of vermin in a cell for a very long time.


57 posted on 04/29/2016 3:24:47 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Aliska

All smoke and mirrors and like it or not Trump candidacy has shoved all of our noses Under the Tent and the game is over I love it


58 posted on 04/29/2016 3:30:33 PM PDT by connyankee (Cannot stand Fox News. A pack of wolves, they be.)
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To: Innovative

What else would one expect from trash?


59 posted on 04/29/2016 3:37:39 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Sicon

Actually, Depends might be a smarter investment ;)


60 posted on 04/29/2016 3:44:23 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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