Trump protests sweep across US cities for second day

A wave of protests swept across the United States for a second day on Thursday in response to Donald Trump's presidential election victory earlier this week.

On the East Coast, protests took place in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, while on the West Coast demonstrators rallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon.

Dozens marched onto a major road in Minneapolis, blocking traffic in both directions for at least an hour.

A smaller band of demonstrators briefly halted traffic on a busy Los Angeles freeway before police there cleared them off.

Police in Baltimore reported some 600 people marched through the downtown Inner Harbor area, with some blocking roads by sitting in the street. Two people were arrested, police said.

In Denver, an estimated 3,000 people marched through downtown in one of the largest demonstrations seen on Thursday. Hundreds, meanwhile, paraded through Dallas.

Police were forced to erect special security barricades around two Trumpmarquee properties that have become focal points of the protests - the president-elect's newly opened Pennsylvania Avenue hotel in Washington and the high-rise Trump Tower where he lives in Manhattan.

In Washington, about 100 protesters marched from the White House, where Mr Trump had his first meeting with President Obama on Thursday, to the Trump International Hotel.

At least 200 people rallied there after dark, many of them chanting "No hate! No fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" and carrying signs with such slogans as "Impeach Trump" and "Not my president."

Thursday's protests were generally smaller in scale and less intense than Wednesday's, while teenagers and young adults again dominated the racially mixed crowds.

In a series of tweets, Mr Trump said "professional protests" had been "incited" by the media.