Thousands of people have protested across the US over Donald Trump's surprise victory in the presidential election, blasting his campaign rhetoric around immigrants, Muslims and other groups.
LISTEN ABOVE: US correspondent Jack Tame speaks with Newstalk ZB from outside Trump Tower
On Wednesday evening, thousands of protesters thronged streets in midtown Manhattan while at a park further downtown hundreds who had gathered screamed "Not my president."
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— Jack Tame (@jacktame) November 10, 2016
In Chicago, roughly 1,000 people attempted to gather outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower downtown while chanting phrases like "No Trump! No KKK! No racist USA." Chicago police closed roads in the area, blocking the demonstrators' path.
"I'm just really terrified about what is happening in this country," said 22 -year-old Adriana Rizzo, who was holding a sign that read: "Enjoy your rights while you can."
"I'm particularly concerned about the rise of white nationalism and this is to show my support against that type of thing," Rizzo said.
— Jack Tame (@jacktame) November 10, 2016
A representative of the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the protests. In his victory speech, however, Trump said he would be president for all Americans, saying, "It is time for us to come together as one united people."
Organisers also planned rallies in New York, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and elsewhere for Wednesday. In Austin, the Texas capital, about 400 people staged a march through the city's streets, police said.
Earlier in the day, some 1,500 California students and teachers rallied in the courtyard of Berkeley High School, a San Francisco Bay Area city known for its progressive politics, before marching toward the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Hundreds of high school and college students walked out in protest in Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles and three other cities in the Bay Area, Richmond, El Cerrito and Oakland.
A predominantly Latino group of about 300 high school students walked out of classes on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles and marched to the steps of City Hall, where they held a brief but boisterous rally.
There were no immediate reports of arrests or violence.
Wednesday's demonstrations followed a night of protests around the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the country.
Demonstrators smashed storefront windows and set garbage and tires ablaze late Tuesday in downtown Oakland, California.
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