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Anti-Trump protests spring up Wednesday evening

Ten arrests were made in protests that lasted past midnight.

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Over a thousand protesters gathered in the streets of Richmond to voice their displeasure at the election of Donald Trump. At various times protester shut down portions of I-95 and the Downtown Expressway.

According to RTD arrests were made after the protesters refused to leave the highway.

The 10 people arrested, six women and four men, were charged with unlawful assembly and being pedestrians on an interstate.

At various points in the evening Richmonders gathered along Monument Avenue, Capital Campus, and in Monroe Park for mostly peaceful protest. NBC12 is reporting of damage that occurred at RNC headquarters. The protests were not centrally organized.

Richmond wasn’t alone last night in speaking out against our President elect. CNN is reporting that there were tens of thousands of protestors in at least 25 US cities, including New York and Nashville, Chicago and Cleveland, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Vandalism occurred on several of the monuments that appears related to the protest.

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