Anti-Trump protests turn violent across US

Protests for a second day in United States against Donald Trump's presidential election victory turned violent, as demonstrators across the country took to the streets for a second day.
Thousands of protesters threw objects at police in Portland and damaged a car lot,
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the Portland Police Department said on Twitter.
Some protesters sprayed graffiti on cars and buildings and smashed store front windows, local media in Portland reported.

"Many in the crowd are trying to get anarchist groups to stop destroying property, anarchists refusing. Others encouraged to leave area" the department said on Twitter after declaring the demonstration a riot.
As thousands of people marched, some smashed store windows, lit firecrackers and started dumpster fires.
About 4,000 protesters chanted "we reject the president-elect!" Some in the crowd threw objects at police and several people were arrested.
On the East Coast, protests took place in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, while on the West Coast demonstrators rallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland in California, and Portland, Oregon.

Dozens in Minneapolis marched onto Interstate 94, blocking traffic in both directions for at least an hour as police stood by.
In Denver, a crowd that media estimated to number about 3,000 gathered on the grounds of the Colorado state capitol and marched through downtown in one of the largest of Thursday's events.
Hundreds also demonstrated through Dallas.
Thursday's gatherings were generally smaller in scale and less intense than Wednesday's, and teenagers and young adults again dominated the racially mixed crowds.

'Professional protesters'

"Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!" Trump said in a Tweet on Thursday night.
Police pitched special security barricades around two Trump marquee properties that have become focal points of the protests - his newly opened Pennsylvania Avenue hotel in Washington and the high-rise Trump Tower, where he lives in Manhattan.